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In fact he "distanced himself from the faltering and unpopular campaign to 'Islamize' the universities, a goal of the conservative faction".

He would sincerely "Islamize" Pakistan.

By building a new mosque in Eminönü, Safiye wanted to Islamize the area.

All universities were closed for three years in a so-called Iran's Cultural Revolution of 1980-1987 to islamize all the universities.

With Coorg depopulated of its original inhabitants, Tipu sought to Islamize it with Muslim settlements.

Nane's followers were some of the ex-Paulician Armenians who were mostly Islamize and later known as Pomaks in Europe.

The historian Mohammed Hassen, in discussing this tradition, suggests this tradition about Adam "was invented so as to Islamize the original founder of the dynasty."

One of the Government's goals, diplomats say, is to Islamize the south and thus forge a gateway for its fundamentalist ideas into the rest of Africa, especially Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

He is an outspoken proponent of Bat Ye'or's conspiracy theory of "Eurabia", according to which Europe and the Arab states would join forces to make life impossible for Israel and Islamize the old continent."

Since the departure of the British, who had ruled Sudan as two separate states, the northern Arab-led Islamist government has tried to conquer and Islamize southern black Africans who have sought self-determination in a single Sudan or outright secession.

Several reasons for this had been brought forth, such that Kahar saw a need to 'Islamize' his DI community in South Sulawesi, and that he wrote for a general audience to help outsiders understand the nature of formalist Islamism.

But unlike his elders, he belongs to a generation influenced by the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran, the Saudi Salafi preachers and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, which brought him to join an Islamist group determined to islamize northern Nigeria and drive out non-Muslims.

Mr. Okal of Al-Azhar University also points to the renewed loyalty to the mosque as a fixture in a world where the secular Palestinian Authority is unreliable - one reason that Hamas and Islamic Jihad have progressed in trying to Islamize a relatively secular population.

"There's a group of people who know they cannot Islamise the constitution so they try to Islamise every issue when it comes up," she said.

During the rule of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who tried to Islamise the nation, prostitution was viewed as an "evil" in society, and attempts were made to eradicate prostitution.