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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A member of the oldest and most important of the four orthodox sects of Sunnite Mohammedans, founded by Abu Hanifah of Kufah (about a. d. 700-770), a puritan in doctrine and the author of a system of jurisprudence. Also Hanifite.

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