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- verb transitive To make
Islamic ; to convert toIslam .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Deeply versed in Islamic theology and mysticism, he was chosen by Ayatollah Khomeini to "Islamicize" Iran's universities, only to eventually turn against the theocratic state.
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While a student at the relatively progressive Al-Thagr High School in Jeddah, bin Laden fell under the spell of a charismatic Syrian physical education teacher who organized after-school Koran reading sessions and who may have inducted the teenager into the Muslim Brotherhood, a pan-Islamic movement that seeks to further Islamicize the Muslim world.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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While a student at the relatively progressive Al-Thagr High School in Jeddah, bin Laden fell under the spell of a charismatic Syrian physical education teacher who organized after-school Koran reading sessions and who may have inducted the teenager into the Muslim Brotherhood, a pan-Islamic movement that seeks to further Islamicize the Muslim world.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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While a student at the relatively progressive Al-Thagr High School in Jeddah, bin Laden fell under the spell of a charismatic Syrian physical education teacher who organized after-school Koran reading sessions and who may have inducted the teenager into the Muslim Brotherhood, a pan-Islamic movement that seeks to further Islamicize the Muslim world.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Subsequent military chiefs like Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who ran the country from 1999 until 2008, moved to de-Islamicize the armed forces.
The Troubled Heart of Pakistan Matthew Kaminski 2011
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While a student at the relatively progressive Al-Thagr High School in Jeddah, bin Laden fell under the spell of a charismatic Syrian physical education teacher who organized after-school Koran reading sessions and who may have inducted the teenager into the Muslim Brotherhood, a pan-Islamic movement that seeks to further Islamicize the Muslim world.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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It's harder to de-Islamicize a society so ill-served by its leaders for so long.
The Troubled Heart of Pakistan Matthew Kaminski 2011
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But it was Zia ul Haq and his Hudood Ordinances which set up a parallel legal apparatus to Islamicize all of Pakistani laws.
Josh Mull: "Democratic Discourse": Reflections in the Pakistani Mirror 2010
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A furor followed among some Serb commentators, who viewed this romanticized version of history as evidence of a Turkish desire to Islamicize the Balkans.
John Feffer: Stealth Superpower: How Turkey Is Chasing China to Become the Next Big Thing 2010
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But it was Zia ul Haq and his Hudood Ordinances which set up a parallel legal apparatus to Islamicize all of Pakistani laws.
Josh Mull: "Democratic Discourse": Reflections in the Pakistani Mirror 2010
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