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One of the four sects of the Sunnites or orthodox Moslems; so called from Al-Shafei, a desceudant of Mahomet. (See Shiites.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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