Sentence examples for sunnis from high-quality English sources.

• Sunnis want to trust someone.”

• Yet it is vital that he woos moderate Sunnis.

• We must think about limiting violence against innocent Sunnis in Iraq and limiting Mr.

• The Sunnis also accept as orthodox four schools of Islamic law: Ḥanafī, Ḥanbalī, Mālikī, and Shāfiʿī.

• A flurry of tweets enjoin Sunnis to “stay away from Shia”.

• Certainly many Sunnis see a deliberate Shia plot to destroy them.

• Worse, Mr Maliki is still failing to reach out effectively to the Sunnis.

• Many Shia volunteers died delivering Sunnis from the barbarous rule of IS.

Use sunnis in a sentence.

• In Karbala, a small group of Shiites were slaughtered by Sunnis of the Umayyad dynasty.

• But perhaps the biggest change is that Sunnis think they are now winning the global contest.

• When, in June, 2014, ISIS came rolling in, anything seemed better than Maliki to many of Iraq’s Sunnis.

• The Sunnis that we view as extremists are regarded by our Sunni allies simply as Sunnis.”

• The split between Sunnis and Shiites began in the seventh century, after the death of the Prophet Muhammad.

• Still, every Friday thousands of Sunnis spill out of large villas in Tehran which Sunnis use as prayer halls.

• The split between Shiites and Sunnis goes back to a bitter divide, in the seventh century, over who should succeed the Prophet Muhammad.

• “The Sunnis are vagrants, their cities are destroyed and an unclear future awaits them, while the Shias can retrieve their self-confidence.”

sunnis sentence examples

• For the Sunnis, who should more properly be called the Jamāʿī-Sunnis, the principle of solidarity was essential to the Sunnah.

• Sunnis are able to go home; Sunnis who were once accused of supporting Daesh,” he continued, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State.

• The new Shia order remains loth, after centuries of oppression, to give the Sunnis a decent slice of power; and the minority Sunnis seem unable to accept second place in a devolved state.

• The brief unity that Islam had imposed on the Arabian Peninsula was irrevocably broken as the main Islamic sects took shape—the “orthodox” Sunnis and the “legitimist” Shiʿah (who were distinguished from the Sunnis principally by their tenet that the imam of the Muslim community must be descended from ʿAlī by Muhammad’s daughter Fāṭimah).