Definition of Sunnas

1. sunna [n] - See also: sunna

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunnas

sunlamp
sunlamps
sunland
sunlands
sunless
sunlessly
sunlessness
sunlight
sunlights
sunlike
sunlit
sunlounger
sunly
sunn
sunnahs
sunnas (current term)
sunne
sunned
sunnier
sunnies
sunniest
sunnily
sunniness
sunninesses
sunning
sunnish
sunns
sunnud
sunnuds
sunny

Literary usage of Sunnas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journals of Major-Gen. C.G. Gordon, C.B., at Kartoum: Printed from the by Charles George Gordon, Alfred Egmont Hake (1885)
"... the times are not hidden from you, nor the forsaking of the sunnas ; and he ... and home) in defence of religion and the sunnas ; and therefore jealousy ..."

2. Spain by James Albert Harrison (1898)
"The text of the Koran itself, and the sunnas, or traditions, are the two-fold ... The sunnas supplement the Koran, consist of precepts gathered by tradition ..."

3. Mahdiism and the Egyptian Sudan: Being an Account of the Rise and Progress by Francis Reginald Wingate (1891)
"The change (disturbance) of the times is not hidden from you, nor the forsaking of the sunnas ; and he who has the (true) faith and understanding will not ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The sources from which these codes were compiled are four: the Koran; the sunnas (the sayings of the Prophet which depend on early tradition, and inferences ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1863)
"... 18th he reached this place, and sent a man to fetch me; but the day was far spent, and my men were all fever stricken, so that I could only make sunnas ..."

6. The History of the Balkan Peninsula: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Ferdinand Schevill (1922)
"The Sacred Law, called the sheri, had as its sources the Koran, certain sayings and decisions attributed to the Prophet Mohammed called sunnas, and a body ..."

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