English

Noun

pan-Sunnism ‎(uncountable)

1. An ideology that promotes unity and solidarity between the various Sunni madhab
   • 2000 Andre Raymond, Cairo p 103

     […] one school of Sunni law (the Shafi'i in particular) and toward a unified "pan-Sunnism"

   • 2007, David Malone, Iraq, p 85

     In the Iraqi context, pan-Islamism is often understood and pursued as pan-Shiism, pan-Sunnism, or Sunni Salafism and when politicized it usually opens the door […]

   • 1980, Pervaiz Cheema, Conflict and Cooperation in the Indian Ocean

     Either pan-Shiaism or pan- Sunnism could cause bitter divisions among the Gulf States thus destabilising