Shafiiten.
/ˈʃafɪʌɪt/ A member of one of the four sects or schools of Sunni Islam, named from the cognomen (ash-Shāfiʿī) of its founder, Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Idris, 767–819. Also attributive or adj.
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Sunni1595
Islam1613
Maliki1704
Sunnite1718
traditionist1718
Shafiite1838
Malikite1839
Hanafite1880
Hanbalite1886
1704 J. Pitts True Acct. Mohammetans vii. 93 The Malachees and Shaffees lift up their Hands in a sort of careless manner, and then let them fall down and hang by their sides.]
1838 G. C. Renouard in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXIV. 440/2 The Sect of the Sháfi'ís or Shafeïtes, is named from Mohammed ibn Idrís Al Sháfi'í.
1886 Blount 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.
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 661/1 The Hanafite praxis is the least rigorous, then the Sháfi῾ite.
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 661/1 In Egypt and North Africa Sháfi῾ites are more numerous than Málikites, while the opposite is the case in Arabia.
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