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shariatizing

shariatizing is the present participle and gerund of shariatize.

Meaning of shariatize

Verb

shariatize (third-person singular simple present shariatizes, present participle shariatizing, simple past and past participle shariatized)

  1. (ambitransitive, rare) To implement or enforce sharia law.
    • Dr. Fazlur Rahman thus in one stroke disposes of both rational-humanist philosophers and those present-day modernist avant-garde Muslim intellectuals who try to, so to say, de-Shariatize Islam through various innovative moves.1995, Absar Ahmad, Knowledge-morality Nexus: Challenging the Dominant Paradigm, page 27

Questions about shariatizing

What is shariatizing the present participle and gerund of?
Shariatizing is the present participle and gerund of shariatize.

Words near shariatizing in the dictionary

  1. shariatising
  2. shariatization
  3. shariatize
  4. shariatized
  5. shariatizes
  6. shariatizing
  7. Shariatpur District
  8. sharif
  9. Sharif Khaneh
  10. sharifa
  11. sharifas

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