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kafirization en · NOUN

Etymology

From kafir + -ization.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The act or process of kafirizing.
    • If some in the Muslim world engage in a process of "kafirization," condemning all who disagree with their interpretation of Islam, Roman Catholicism has witnessed those, in the past and again today […] 2004, Stan D'Souza, Ethical approaches to population, poverty, and conflict, page 298:
    • They can not accept such kafirization of Pak-stan 1997, Sunil Gokhale, “Why Indo-Pak ties are difficult”, in soc.culture.indian (Usenet):
    • In their zeal to re-Islamicize their respective states, many revivalists engage in a process known as kafirization, or declaring those who are not like-politically minded (whether Muslim or non-Muslim) as infidels […] 2004, Stefan Aubrey, The New Dimension of International Terrorism, page 93: