pan-Sunnism en · NOUN
Etymology
From pan- + Sunni + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) An ideology that promotes unity and solidarity between the various Sunni madhabs.
Either pan-Shiaism or pan-Sunnism could cause bitter divisions among the Gulf States […]
1980, Pervaiz Cheema, Conflict and Cooperation in the Indian Ocean:In the Iraqi context, pan-Islamism is often understood and pursued as pan-Shiism, pan-Sunnism, or Sunni Salafism and when politicized it usually opens the door […]
2007, David Malone, Iraq, page 85:[…] one school of Sunni law (the Shafi'i in particular) and toward a unified "pan-Sunnism" […]
2000, Andre Raymond, Cairo, page 103: