Sunni

Definitions

Belonging or relating to the branch of Islam based on the Qur'an, the Kutub al-Sittah (the hadiths which record the Sunnah) and that places emphasis on the Sahabah.

Equivalents

Examples

“I therefore strongly advocate the formation of a local capital but not at Hillah, which is too Sunni and near Baghdad”

“members […] came to view⟳ themselves collectively as the righteous descendants of Husayn confronting an evil and fundamentally alien ruler: a shah more Zoroastrian than Muslim, more Sunni than Shi'i, more Arab than Iranian, more Yazid than Husayn.”

“Many Shias who had become⟳ more Sunni in their religious practices reverted back to their original sect.”

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