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Sunni
[ soon-ee ]
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- Sunnism noun
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Within a few years, Iran had jailed or driven from the country more than 60 Sunni clerics.
Riots broke out in 1994, after Iranian authorities replaced a Sunni mosque in Mashad with a development project.
The Baluch in Iran do not speak Farsi but Baluchi, just like the Baluch in Pakistan, and in Iran they are a Sunni minority.
When a popular Sunni televangelist does it, to forgive is divine.
A Shiite stronghold wrapped in a Sunni explosive belt—not exactly a picture of stability.
The troops in his army upon whom he placed most reliance were the Afghans and Tartars, who were of the Sunni persuasion.
The field contains but few adventitious designs and they are rarely animal, as the Afghans are Sunni Mohammedans.
The religion was that of Islam, and the sect the orthodox Sunni; but the practice was less precise than in Arabia.
(e) Shiite Moslems outnumber the Sunni, and make about one twenty-fifth of the whole.
The struggle between Shiah and Sunni was dividing the world of Islam.
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