Sunnism
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈsʌnɪzəm/
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sunitismo
- This is a common deception of the Rafidites and should be a warning to you whenever they come out with their lame phrase, 'we bring Sunni sources only to refute Sunnism.'
Examples
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In recent years, the principles of Sunnism have played a significant role in shaping social and political debates within Muslim communities.
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This threat to Islam is most serious as it comes, for the first time in history, from within, through the believers themselves, whence the tone of urgency in his writings and his call and justification for the first time in orthodox Sunnism for a full-blown revolution against the existing regimes.
Academic text (2000) -
Sunnism has none of that.
Blog text (22) -
These explanations are constructed either in terms of the difference between the political theory of Shi'ism and Sunnism or the institutional autonomy of the Shi'i ulama within the context of the state's weakness in Iran and its strength in other places.
Academic text (1993) -
These splits are not just sociological and political; they have theological foundations and consequences which, above all today, make it impossible to adopt the divisions imposed by the official literature of majority groups like Sunnism in Islam and the Catholic magisterium in the Middle Ages before Luther and Calvin.
Academic text (1995) -
Many scholars study the history of Sunnism to understand its influence on modern Islam.
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Sunnism encompasses a variety of beliefs and practices that guide the conduct of its followers.
Synonyms
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3.9
A branch of Islam that accepts the first four leaders after Muhammad and values community authority
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sunnism comes from the Arabic word Sunna, which means 'way' or 'tradition', and Sunni is a person who follows that way. The ending -ism means a belief system, as in Buddhism, so Sunnism is the system of beliefs and practices of those who follow the Prophet Muhammad's Sunna, which explains its modern meaning.