Sufize

English

Etymology

From Sufi +‎ -ize.

Verb

Sufize (third-person singular simple present Sufizes, present participle Sufizing, simple past and past participle Sufized)

1. To make or become Sufi
   • 1999, Idris Shah, The Sufis, page 358:

     The Sikh religion, it is a matter of historical fact, was founded by the Sufized Hindu Guru Nanak, who freely admitted his

   • 2007, David Cook, Martyrdom in Islam, page 75:

     For example, it is not unusual for various holy figures, sometimes fighters or wandering mendicants, to be “Sufized” after […]

   • 2010, Eric Geoffroy, Introduction to Sufism: The Inner Path of Islam, page 21:

     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.