Shafiite

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Etymology

Shafi'i + -ite, from the founder's name.

Noun

Shafiite (plural Shafiites)

  1. 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.

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