sunni|sunnis in English

noun

member of the larger of the two sects of Islam (characterized by orthodox practice and acceptance of the first four caliphs as legitimate successors to Muhammad)

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1. The Sunnis are predominantly in the south and southeast.

2. Sunnis are a large majority of the Afghan population.

3. Islam has two main sects: the Sunnis and the Shias.

4. Hola: Sunni Arabs from Persia Tribal: Urbanized Sunni Bahrainis of Bedouin ancestry, such as the Utoob, Dawasir etc

5. Kafr Nabl's inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.

6. The new defense minister is a Sunni Arab.

7. A suspected Sunni insurgent is arrested inside his home.

8. Government officials believe Sunni extremists are to blame.

9. The Sunni compose about 90 percent of present - day Islam.

10. Religion: Muslim ( mostly Sunni ) - 94 %; Coptic Christian and other - 6 %.

11. This is a fundamental difference between Sunni and Shita.

12. The inhabitants of Jazan are Arab and almost entirely Sunni Muslim.

13. But it finds some progress in Sunni insurgents fighting al - Qaeda.

14. It is generally accepted that Aurangzeb was a fanatic Sunni Mussalman

15. But a grim and retributive mood settled over predominantly Sunni areas.

16. A member of a nomadic, primarily Sunni Muslim people of Baluchistan

17. Sunni Muslims constitute the majority of the Arab League's residents.

18. Some towns in the province have a record of Shia - Sunni enmity.

19. Known for their fundamentalist brand of Islam, the Afghanis are divided into two groups, Sunnis and Shi'ites

20. Sunni Muslims recognize these first four, or Rashidun (the rightly guided), Caliphs

21. Baluchi definition, a member of a nomadic, primarily Sunni Muslim people of Baluchistan

22. In religion the Bashkirs are mainly Sunni Muslims of the Hanafi madhhab.

23. Hussein and his unreconciled supporters among Iraq's Sunni minority, there was an explosion of anger.

24. The mosque was badly damaged in a February 2006 bombing, presumably the work of Sunni militants.

25. He established numerous mosques and madrasah in order further the spread of Sunni beliefs.