Shafiite
English edit
Etymology edit
Shafi'i + -ite, from the founder's name.
Noun edit
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.