Brewer's: Shafites

(2 syl.). One of the four sects of the Sunnites or orthodox Moslems; so called from Al-Shafei, a descendant of Mahomet. (See Shites.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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