Sentence examples for main sects from inspiring English sources

The group has assiduously worked to worsen the sectarian bitterness sweeping the region between Islam's two main sects.

The two main sects, Shia Zaidi and Sunni Shafi, have traditionally been seen as moderate with minimal differences.

The Muslims are divided, however, between the two main sects of Islam, the Sunnites and the Shīʿites.

This, they said, rendered the government illegal, since it was constitutionally required to represent all the main sects.

Since then, the peace in Lebanon has depended on a delicate balance among the country's main sects: the Sunnis, Shiites, and Christians.

He also seized on a gaffe Mr. McCain made Tuesday in Amman, Jordan, when he confused the main sects of Islam and the support for each from Al Qaeda, a Sunni dominated group, and Iran, a majority Shiite nation.

Educated first in Ṭūs, where his father was a jurist in the Twelfth Imam school, the main sect of Shīʾite Muslims, al-Ṭūsī finished his education in Neyshābūr, about 75 kilometres (50 miles) to the west.

He also reached out to both main Muslim sects.

The unexpected apology for wartime complicity by the leaders of Myoshin-ji, the headquarters temple of one of Japan's main Zen sects, was issued 16 days after 9/11, which gave it a particular resonance.

The lifting of martial rule would, he hoped, be a sign that peace and normality would prevail.But reconciliation between the two main Muslim sects is still a distant prospect.

The school apparently had popular support, for the Chinese pilgrim Hsüan-tsang described it in the 7th century as one of the four main Buddhist sects of that time.