Crossword clues for sunna
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sunna \Sun"na\, n. [Ar. sunnah rule, law.] A collection of traditions received by the orthodox Mohammedans as of equal authority with the Koran.
Wikipedia
Sunna may refer to:
- Sunna (band), a British rock band from the early 2000s
- Sunna (Saxon chief), a Saxon chief
- Kim Sunna, a Swedish professional ice hockey player
- Sól (sun) (Sunna), Germanic goddess/personification of the Sun in Old High German
- Sunnah, record of the teachings, deeds and sayings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, a source of Islamic law
- Sunne, Sweden, a municipality in Sweden
- Sunni Islam, a branch of Islam
Sunna are a hard rock and industrial rock band from Bristol, England. They released their third album, After the Third Pin on 3 October 2011.
Sunna was a Saxon chief whose people were widespread in eastern Berkshire, southern England. A number of English place names are derived from this name including Sonning (historically spelled "Sunning"), Sonning Eye, Sunbury, Sunningdale, Sunninghill and Sunningwell, many close to the River Thames.
One historian notes that "Sunbury may be named after Sunna, the eponymous founder of the provincia quae appellatur Sunninges, whose territory lay in Berkshire west of the lands granted to Chertsey in the mid-670s". A historian of Wessex has commented "The Sunna of Sonning and related names... was clearly a local potentate of no small importance". Searle's Onomasticon finds that Sunna was a rare personal name.
However, a 1937 theory held that "The meaning of sunna is likely to be wet or marshy land...[as] in Sonning, h[undre]d. and par[ish]...near Reading, and in Sunninghill in south-east Berkshire".
Usage examples of "sunna".
Islam was both the Law and the Faith, and the Caliphs represented the continuation of what was termed the Sunna, the orthodox tradition of the doctrine and legal decisions which the Prophet had bequeathed to the Muslim community.
Among these were people as widely separated as the Azgar, on the edge of the desert, and certain heretical Shiite fraternities in European Turkey, particularly Albania, Monastir, and a region close to the northern frontier, whose interpretation of the Sunna, read without the usual glosses, points to Napoleon as the Hidden Imam, the Mahdi.
He saw Mork sunna Brenn rush with uplifted sword at one of the dark strangers, a big man who had added a rich-looking blouse to his skirt.
More moderate Sufis strove to present themselves as good Sunnis, upholders of the Sunna, orthodox Islam, but Sufis varied from strict pietists and moderates to extremists best described as 'Lords of Misrule'.