Sentence examples for sunni school from inspiring English sources

KUALA LUMPUR — Like most Muslims in Malaysia, Mohammad Shah was raised according to the Sunni school of Islam.

Shafii, the founder of a Sunni school of law, recommended that ships either keep the body on board until they could reach land or sandwich it between two wooden slabs and tow it with a rope.

They are Deobandi, adherents of an ultra-Orthodox Sunni school of thought that opposes music and festivals, which are central aspects of Sufism, a tolerant form of Islam that is traditional here.

Samia's decision to then marry a man from outside her extended family, who as a Shia did not follow the same Sunni school of Islam, had "further tarnished the honour of the family".

The 1964 Constitution from the monarchy era, which was discarded after the king's ouster in 1973, is being used until the new document emerges, specified that courts should turn to Hanafi jurisprudence, the Sunni school followed here, when there was no applicable law or constitutional provision.

And despite impressions that sectarian differences might preclude open engagement, as most Saudis follow the Sunni school of Islam and most Iranians adhere to Shiite ideology, analysts say religious differences are not decisive.

Some 10% of the 24m Saudis are Shias and many of the rest adhere to less rigid Sunni schools.

Mālikī, also called Madhhab Mālik, in Islam, one of the four Sunni schools of law, formerly the ancient school of Medina.

Shāfiʿī, also called Madhhab al-Shāfiʿī, in Islam, one of the four Sunni schools of religious law, derived from the teachings of Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī (767 820).

He provides a lively intellectual history of Islam, concentrating on the emergence of the four major Sunni schools of law and several well-known, and some largely forgotten, characters.

Despite these important initial differences between the two main Sunni schools of thought, the doctrines of al-Māturīdī became submerged in course of time under the expanding popularity of the Ashʿarite school, which gained wide currency particularly after the 11th century because of the influential activity of the Sufi theologian al-Ghazālī.