Meanings
nounanti-Sunnite (plural anti-Sunnites)
plural anti-Sunnites
- Someone who opposes or dislikes Sunnis.
Now the question is whether this madrasah-building movement among the Sunni was meant only to check the growing Shi'i and Mu'tazili influences and turn the table on the anti-Sunnites.
1997, Islam and the Modern Age, volume 28, page 16
Origin
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