Malikiten.adj.

1839 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 2 120 There are two classes of Musulmen in Algiers—the Turks are Hanéfites, and the Arabs are Malekites,—the former have 14 mosques, and the latter have 92.

1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXIV. 440/2 The Malekites or Málikís.

1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 283/1 Four sects, named, after their founders, Hanifites, Malekites, Shafeites, and Hanbalites, who differ in some unimportant points of ritual and Koranic interpretation.

1911 D. S. Margoliouth Mohammedanism v. 184 Though calling himself a Malikite, he introduced certain alterations in the prayer-ritual.

1914 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 8 952 Every developed system of law has had its liberals and its reactionaries, its Hanafites and Malekites, [etc.].

1985 Internat. Family Planning Perspectives 11 5/3 The four main sects of Islam–the Malekites or Sunni, the Shafeites, the Hanifa and the Ibn Hanbal–may differ over small details.

1898 Cromer Let. to Salisbury 12 Apr. in D. Oliver Salvo for Africa (2000) 27 It is unclear whether the spectre of a Malikite state integrating north and south will depart so easily.

1905 M. Y. Khan (title) Tagore Lectures. Principles of Mohammedan Jurisprudence..according to the Hanifaite, Malikite, Shafeite, and Hanbalite schools of Mohammedan law.

1935 New Columbia Encycl. 901/3 The Malikite [Rite], founded by Malik ibn Aras [sic]..followed [the Hanafite] in west and north Africa.

1957 M. Banton West Afr. City vii. 136 The Africans are of the Sunni Malikite school.

1975 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 60 482 He received..the support of the Malekite jurists, who openly criticized the political corruption and moral decay of the Andalusian courts.

1993 Callaloo 16 118 The latest version of the Family Code, still under the malekite influence, all but considers them [sc. women] minors.