neo-Sunni
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[edit]- Rhymes: -ʊni
Adjective
[edit]neo-Sunni (not comparable)
- Pertaining to reinterpreted forms of Sunnism
- 2013, Farhad Daftary, A history of Shi'ism:
- As noted, alShawkani was the most influential member of the neo Sunni school that arose in Zaydi Yaman
- 1994, Quarterly Journal, Pakistan Historical Society:
- Warith probably over-stated the success of Farrakhan's sectlet in attracting the nationalist Black public at the expense of his integralist neo-Sunni Black Muslim core
- 1999, The Middle East, page 305:
- […] neo-Sunni Blacks who graduated from Warith's post-1975 sect into a drive to achieve comprehensive Islamic law […]