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neo-Sunni en · ADJ

Etymology

From neo- + Sunni.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to reinterpreted forms of Sunnism
    • […] neo-Sunni Blacks who graduated from Warith's post-1975 sect into a drive to achieve comprehensive Islamic law […] 1999, The Middle East, page 305:
    • As noted, alShawkani was the most influential member of the neo Sunni school that arose in Zaydi Yaman 2013, Farhad Daftary, A history of Shi'ism:
    • Warith probably over-stated the success of Farrakhan's sectlet in attracting the nationalist Black public at the expense of his integralist neo-Sunni Black Muslim core 1994, Quarterly Journal, Pakistan Historical Society: