Sentence examples for two main sects from inspiring English sources

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

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

The differentiation of the school into two main sects, later called akousmatikoi (from akousma, viz., the esoteric teachings) and mathēmatikoi (from mathēmatikos, "scientific"), may have occurred at that time.

Those attacks, the first in February of that year and the second in April, led to large-scale bloodletting and mass displacement across Iraq, pitching the two main sects of Islam against each other, just as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of a forerunner to Isis, had envisaged.

The preacher at a slain Sunni youth's funeral described him as a "martyr to Arabism"—a subtle jibe at the ostensibly "Persian" Shias and their leading party in Lebanon, Hizbullah.This was the week of Ashura, a Shia festival that commemorates martyrdom and has often proved a tense period in places where Islam's two main sects both reside.

In an orgy of killing in Baghdad and many other cities, the two main sects ethnically cleansed neighborhoods, expelling each other into a series of highly segregated enclaves.

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.

According to the traditions of the two main Jain sects, the Shvetambara ("White-robed") and the Digambara ("Sky-clad," i.e., naked), Mahavira became a monk and followed an extreme ascetic life, attaining kevala, the stage of omniscience or highest perception.

The main Shakta Upanishads mostly discuss doctrinal and interpretative differences between the two principal sects of a major Tantric form of Shaktism called Shri Vidya upasana.

The article is divided into two main parts: in Sect. 2 we study control systems described by the Riemann-Liouville derivatives and in Sect.

He is claimant to the title of 17th Karmapa, the head of one of the main sects of the Kagyud, or "Black Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, which in the 17th century lost state power to the dalai lamas' own Gelugpa school.Ogyen Trinley, recognised by both the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama as the incarnate Karmapa, was born in Tibet, but in 1999 fled to India.