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Etymology

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From Hanafi +‎ -ize.

Verb

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hanafize (third-person singular simple present hanafizes, present participle hanafizing, simple past and past participle hanafized)

  1. (very rare) To convert to Hanafism
    • 2004, Leif Stenberg, Globalization and the Muslim World, page 20
      Ottoman officials in the Hamidian and Young Turk eras attempted to "hanafize" ...
    • 2014, Denise Aigle, The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality, page 36
      The attempt to “hanafize” the Mongol is also attested by Shabānkarāʾī ...
    • 2005, J Desautels-Stein - Fletcher F, Rites and Rights in Afghanistan: The Hazara and the 2004 Constitution, page 157, link
      The 1964 Constitution and the Afghan civil and criminal codes were "Hanafized".

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