pan-Sunnism
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]- An ideology that promotes unity and solidarity between the various Sunni madhabs.
- 1980, Pervaiz Cheema, Conflict and Cooperation in the Indian Ocean:
- Either pan-Shiaism or pan-Sunnism could cause bitter divisions among the Gulf States […]
- 2000, Andre Raymond, Cairo, page 103:
- […] one school of Sunni law (the Shafi'i in particular) and toward a unified "pan-Sunnism" […]
- 2007, David Malone, Iraq, page 85:
- 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 […]