Sunni Sentence Examples

The Malays to-day are Sunni Mahommedans of the school of Shafi`i, and the y habitually use the terms Orang Malayu, i.e.

Kuwait is Sunni, with Wahabi leanings.

The one was Chin Kulich Khan, also called Asaf Jah, and still more commonly Nizam-ul-Mulk, who was of Turkoman origin, and belonged to the Sunni sect.

At this time not only was there religious fanaticism at work to stir up the mutual hatred ever existing between Sunni and Shiah, but the intrigue of European courts was probably directed towards the maintenance of an hostility which deterred the sultan from aggressive operations north and west of Constantinople.

Lebanon, are tending to emigrate or conform to Sunni Islam.

The ' sunni areas ' northwest of Baghdad were marked by an effective boycott.

They own a chief sheikh, resident at Jeba`a, and have the reputation, like most heretical communities in the Sunni part of the Moslem world, of being exceedingly fanatical and inhospitable.

Persian Makran is exclusively Sunni except for the district of Jask.

The Kirghiz are Sunni Mahommedans by faith, but amongst them there are curious survivals of an ancient ritual of which the origin is to be traced to those Nestorian Christian Evidences communities of Central Asia which existed in the of the middle ages.

Iraq's Sunni minority was dominant under Saddam and is believed to make up the backbone of the country's insurgency.

The vast majority of Afghans are of the Sunni sect; but there are, in their midst, such powerful communities of Shiahs as the Hazaras of the central districts, the Kizilbashes of Kabul and the Turis of the Kurram border, nor is there between them that bitterness of sectarian animosity which is so marked a feature in India.

Iraq 's Sunni Muslim minority held the reins of power during Saddam Hussein 's rule.

Feldman said the Shiite population in Iraq has shown patience of historic proportion in not retaliating against the Sunni attacks.

Bahrein is Sunni, but has a large Shiah population of Persian origin.

ReligionAbout 9,000,000 of the population are Mahommedans of the Shiah faith, and 800,000 or 900,000, principally Kurds in north-western Persia, are said to belong to the other great branch of Islam, the Sunni, which differs from the former in religious doctrine and historical belief, and is the state religion of the Turkish Empire and other Mahommedan countries.

Baghdad has been suffering from violence between Sunni and Shiite death squads.

Another is that some parts of central Iraq populated by the once dominant Sunni community remain too restive to assure a large voter turnout.

Sunni areas ' northwest of Baghdad were marked by an effective boycott.

In spite of his drunkenness, however, Murad was a bigoted Sunni, and the main cause of his campaign against Persia was his desire to extirpate the Shia heresy.