Sunnization

Eventually, through this struggle, Khomeini made an important innovation in Shi'i law, which helps transform the Shi'i approach to jurisprudence toward a position close to that of the Sunnis. I call it the "sunnization" of Shi'i jurisprudence.

This certainly represented a "sunnization" of shfism, but by the twelfth century it was a sunnization heavily determined by a doctrinal elaboration of two centuries of sufism, from which it absorbed precisely those concepts which bring sufism and ...

All this reinforced the perception within the Sunni community, of a “de-sunnization” of the country, and many Sunnis believed that official institutions were being used to implement this policy