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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

A member of one of the four sects of the Sunnites, or Orthodox Mohammedans; – so called from its founder, Mohammed al-Shafeï.

Shafiite ‎(plural Shafiites)

A member of the Shafi'i (Arabic: شافعي‎ Šāfiʿī), one of the schools of fiqh, or religious law, within the Sunni branch of Islam, recognising four sources of jurisprudence.