Sunni
noun
a member of one of the two great religious divisions of Islam, regarding the first four caliphs as legitimate successors of Muhammad and stressing the importance of Sunna as a basis for law.
Sunnism
-
a word derived from
Sunni.
Example Sentences
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That country’s Wahhabism had arisen as a puritan reform of Sunnism in the 18th century.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2024
Though the majority of Muslims in Azerbaijan and Iran considered themselves Shia by the time the Safavid era ended in 1736, Nader Shah attempted to restore Sunnism as the dominant sect.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Although Sunnism is the dominant branch of Islam here, Tajikistan otherwise has close cultural and linguistic ties to Iran, which is majority Shia.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
In his most well-known work, The Incoherence of the Philosophers, Al-Ghazali sought to refute these challenges while also strengthening the theological basis for Sunnism.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
The inhabitants are virtuous, honest, and much attached to Sunnism and orthodoxy.
From Les Parsis by Ratanbai Ardeshir Vakil
