Word.ws English Dictionary

Shariaphobia

Shariaphobia noun: fear or hatred of sharia law.

Noun

Shariaphobia (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Fear or hatred of sharia law.
    • Our Human Rights Town Hall calls out Islamic supremacist groups in America to cease and desist their subversive activity under the guise of 'civil rights' or Shariaphobia.2012, "jwshe", AFDI/SIOA, FMU to Host "Summer Night for Human Rights" in Defense of Iranian Pastor Sentenced to Death for Leaving Islam (on newsgroup soc.culture.iranian; reposted from Yahoo! News)
    • Badawi also said there is wide misunderstanding and fear of the Sharia, which can be explained as “Shariaphobia,” a mindset of Islamophobia.2013, Fouzia Khan, Conference vows to combat extremism (arabnews.com)

Origin of Shariaphobia

From Sharia + -phobia.

Questions about Shariaphobia

What does Shariaphobia mean?
Shariaphobia means fear or hatred of sharia law.
What part of speech is Shariaphobia?
Shariaphobia is a noun.

Words near Shariaphobia in the dictionary

  1. shariafied
  2. shariafies
  3. shariafy
  4. shariafying
  5. shariah
  6. Shariaphobia
  7. sharias
  8. shariat
  9. shariatic
  10. shariatisation
  11. shariatise

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Shariaphobia (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Shariaphobia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shariaphobia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.