Sunni
nounEtymology From Arabic سُنِّيّ (sunniyy), from سُنَّة (sunna, “Sunna”) + ـِيّ (-iyy). By surface analysis, Sunna + -i.
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A follower of Sunni Islam.
Sunni
adj/ˈsʊni/
Etymology From Arabic سُنِّيّ (sunniyy), from سُنَّة (sunna, “Sunna”) + ـِيّ (-iyy). By surface analysis, Sunna + -i.
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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.
- I therefore strongly advocate the formation of a local capital but not at Hillah, which is too Sunni and near Baghdad2001, H. E. Wingate, edited by Alan de Lacy Rush and Jane Priestland, Records of Iraq, 1914-1966, volume 2, page 181:
- 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.1992, Bruce Lincoln, Discourse and the Construction of Society, page 36:
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- Many Shias who had become more Sunni in their religious practices reverted back to their original sect.2012, Eamon Murphy, The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan: Historical and social roots ..., page 98:
- Derived terms
- anti-Sunni, Sunnification, Sunniism, Sunnise, sunnize