Sunnite
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Sunnite
Example Sentences
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A wide majority of the illiterate population are Shiites but even the literate Government clique�including youthful King Ghazi, who belongs to the opposed Sunnite sect�sympathize with the Arabs of Palestine.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of his odes which contains a verse in praise of Ali is engraved on the poet’s tomb, but is omitted by Sudi, the Turkish editor and commentator, who was himself a rigid Sunnite.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
It was then compiled by the order of Abu Bekr, the first Sunnite Caliph.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
One of them, Siyyid Dávúdí, a Sunnite savant of Baghdád, wrote a short treatise in which he related certain supernatural acts of Bahá’u’lláh.
From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá
The old antipathy between the Iranians and Turanians, the Schiite Persians and the Sunnite Turks, was afterwards carried into Europe by the Ottoman Moslems.
From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park
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