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Sufize en · VERB

Etymology

From Sufi + -ize.

Meanings

1. To make or become Sufi
   • Shamanism, for example, is far from having disappeared among Turkish populations from the steppes of Turkestan to the Anatolian plateau, and one might speak of a “Sufized shamanism. 2010, Eric Geoffroy, Introduction to Sufism: The Inner Path of Islam, page 21:
   • For example, it is not unusual for various holy figures, sometimes fighters or wandering mendicants, to be “Sufized” after […] 2007, David Cook, Martyrdom in Islam, page 75:
   • The Sikh religion, it is a matter of historical fact, was founded by the Sufized Hindu Guru Nanak, who freely admitted his 1999, Idris Shah, The Sufis, page 358:

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