Significados de Sunnite em inglês

They are Sunnite Mahommedans in distinction from the Hazara who are Shiites.

The Persians are mostly Shyites, and refuse to receive the Sunnite traditions.

Only a few of the Sunnite doctors acknowledge the Shyites to be Moslems.

The Shiite views of jurisprudence, as of theology, prevailed in Persia; the "Futawa Alumgeeree" is strictly Sunnite.

Omar, a Sunnite, obtained the leadership in 634, and proceeded to carry out the prophet's ambitious schemes of conquest.

Of Incarnationist colour, it repudiated the dour illiberal spirit of the early Arabian apostles which latter-day Sunnite orthodoxy has revived.

Shiite or Sunnite groups.

Under their orthodox protection the Sunnite doctrines were able to strike root in Balkh and Samarkand-theancient Turan, and therefore hostile to Iran and Persia.