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anti-Sunnism en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + Sunni + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Prejudice, discrimination or hostility directed against Sunnis
    • the secularism of the Ba'ath and the supposed anti-Sunnism of Hafiz alAssad 2013, Raphael Lefevre, Ashes of Hama: The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria - Page 72
    • His strident anti-Sunnism roused the Sunnis in Afghanistan to action that eventually led to the overthrow of the Safavid dynasty in 1722 and the coming to power of a Sunni Afghan in Iran. 2004, Phyllis Jestice, Holy People of the World: A Cross-cultural Encyclopedia - Page 533
    • His emphasis on the plight of the Mustaz'afin or “miserable ones” belonged to the realm of economics and anti-imperialism, not to the realm of religion and anti-Sunnism 2011, Meir Litvak, The Sunna and Shi'a in History:

Synonyms

Sunniphobia