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Islamise

Islamise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Islamize.

Meaning of Islamize

Verb

Islamize (third-person singular simple present Islamizes, present participle Islamizing, simple past and past participle Islamized)

  1. To convert to Islam.
  2. To make someone, or a society, conform to Islamic law.
    • In particular, many are challenged to avoid, in their zeal to Islamize state and society, a tendency to “kafirize.”1999, Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding Georgetown University John L. Esposito Professor of Religion and International Affairs, The Islamic...

Forms of Islamise

third-person singular presentIslamises
present participleIslamising
past participleIslamised
pastIslamised

Origin of Islamise

From Islam + -ise.

Words formed from Islamise

Questions about Islamise

What is Islamise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Islamise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Islamize.

Words near Islamise in the dictionary

  1. Islamicness
  2. Islamics
  3. Islamification
  4. Islamisation
  5. Islamisbad
  6. Islamise
  7. Islamiser
  8. Islamisers
  9. islamism
  10. Islamisms
  11. Islamist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Islamise (page history and authors); Islamize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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