Massoud came from an ethnic Tajik, Sunni Muslim background from the Panjshir valley in northern Afghanistan.

Sunni Muslim 80 %, other 20 % ( 2002 est.

Chuck is a pescatarian and Sunni Muslim.

Religious affiliation is itself multi-layered and includes religious considerations other than being Muslim, such as sectarian identity ( e. g. Shia or Sunni, etc.

Because of their fierce battles with the Crusaders, the Druzes earned the respect of the Sunni Muslim Caliphs and thus gained important political powers.

Thus, the Sheikh of al-Azhar in Cairo, Muhammad Sayid Tantawy, who is the leading religious authority in the Sunni Muslim establishment in Egypt, alongside the Grand Mufti of Egypt, said the following about fatwās issued by himself or the entire Dar al-Ifta:

The population is predominantly Sunni Muslim.

The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon.

However, relations have diminished due to ongoing sectarian clashes between Iraq's Sunni and Shia Muslim branches, and the Lebanese Government's support of Hezbollah.

Iraq and Sudan are connected by remote cultural similarities such as language ( both countries speak Arabic, though the two are different in dialect ) and religion, both are Muslim ( however Sudan is predominantly Sunni, while the majority of Iraq is Shia ).

Olivier Roy argues that " Sunni pan-Islamism underwent a remarkable shift in the second half of the 20th century " when the Muslim Brotherhood movement and focus on Islamistation of pan-Arabism was eclipsed by the Salafi movement with its emphasis on " sharia rather than the building of Islamic institutions ," and rejection of Shia Islam.

Nearly everyone in Jalalabad are Muslim, followers of Sunni Islam.

Jahangir, like his father, was not a strict Sunni Muslim ; he allowed, for example, the continuation of his father's tradition of public debate between different religions.

85 % of Kuwait's population is Muslim ( Sunni 70 %, Shi ' a 30 %) and the rest belong to other religions ( includes Christian, Hindu, Parsi ).

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

The Shihabs were originally a Sunni Muslim family, but had converted to Christianity.

Consequently, the demographics of Lebanon were profoundly altered, as the territory added contained people who were predominantly Muslim or Druze: Lebanese Christians, of which the Maronites were the largest subgrouping, now constituted barely more than 50 % of the population, while Sunni Muslims in Lebanon saw their numbers increase eightfold, Shi ' ite Muslims fourfold.

The president was required to be a Christian ( in practice, a Maronite ), the prime minister a Sunni Muslim.

Muslim groups rejected the move and pledged support to Selim al-Hoss, a Sunni who had succeeded Karami.

In the late 1990s, the government took action against Sunni Muslim extremists in the north who had attacked its soldiers, and it continues to move against groups such as Asbat al-Ansar, which has been accused of being partnered with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.

* The Prime Minister, a Sunni Muslim.

The largest religious and ethnic group in the Levant is Sunni Muslim Arabs, but there are also many other groups.

There are largely Sunni Muslim Kurds.

The person responsible for this conversion was a Sunni Muslim visitor named Abu al Barakat.

From the 8th century to the 9th century, many inhabitants of what is present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and areas of northern India were converted to Sunni Islam.

During the 8th through the 9th centuries, many inhabitants of what is present-day Afghanistan and western Pakistan were converted to Sunni Islam.

The Ghaznavid military incursions assured the domination of Sunni Islam in what is now Afghanistan and western Pakistan.

He is a well-respected Sunni cleric who studied in the Sudan, Iran and Saudi Arabia.

In Sunni Islam any fatwā is non-binding, whereas in Shia Islam it could be considered by an individual as binding, depending on his or her relation to the scholar.

* " In Sunni Islam, a fatwā is nothing more than an opinion.

Iran is accused of playing a double game in Afghanistan, a helper to the Afghan Shias and a destabilizer for the larger Sunni Afghans.

In the Sunni tradition, the number of such texts is ten thousand plus or minus a few thousand.

The most dangerous insurgent area is the Sunni Triangle, a mostly Sunni-Muslim area just north of Baghdad.

In every day terms, the imam for Sunni Muslims is the one who leads Islamic formal ( Fard ) prayers, even in locations besides the mosque, whenever prayers are done in a group of two or more with one person leading ( imam ) and the others follow by copying his ritual actions of worship.

Jordan's most significant means of influence is its hosting of a large and ever-changing Iraqi expatriate community, mostly of Sunni Arab origin.

The Anbar Salvation Council is a Sunni armed group in Iraq formed by members of baathist and nationalist elements to fight Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

This is also the position of the Ashari school, the largest school of Sunni theology.

The understanding of the divine spiritual endowment of the rooster within Islam, may be evidenced in the words of Muhammad of that Abrahamic religion in one of the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni Islam, stating that of " when you hear the crowing of cocks, ask for Allah's Blessings for they have seen an angel " as well as the mention where " the cock is also venerated in Islam: it was the giant bird seen by Muhammad in the First Heaven crowing.

The Al ash-Sheikh are the descendants of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, the 18th century founder of the Wahhabi form of Sunni Islam which is today dominant in Saudi Arabia.

Iraq and Sudan are connected by remote cultural similarities such as language ( both countries speak Arabic, though the two are different in dialect ) and religion, both are Muslim ( however Sudan is predominantly Sunni, while the majority of Iraq is Shia ).

* Buddy ( voiced by the late Dana Hill ) is a teenaged member of the Barbics, about Sunni's age ; more gentle and artistic than the rest of his tribe, he enjoys playing the flute and eventually becomes close friends with both Sunni and Cavin.

Sunni Muslims believed the caliphate was elective, and any member of the Prophet's tribe, Quraysh, might serve as one.

A Kurd and Sunni Muslim, Othman was a member of the Political Bureau Kurdistan Democratic Party ( KDP ).

A lawyer and Sunni Muslim, al-Shibli is a member of the newly formed National Democratic Party ( Iraq ).

Qutbism ( also called Kotebism, Qutbiyya, or Qutbiyyah ) is a strain of Sunni Islamist ideology and activism, based on the thought and writings of Sayyid Qutb, an Islamist and former leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood who was executed in 1966.

In 1992, she was elected as member of Parliament for the Sunni seat in Saida.

On April 12, 2007, a bomb went off in the Iraqi Parliament cafeteria, killing Mohammed Awad ( a member of the Sunni National Dialogue Front ) and injuring 22, including one of the vice presidents.

The Iraqi Islamic Party is the largest Sunni Islamist political party in Iraq as well as the most prominent member of the Iraqi Accord Front political coalition.

Her mother, Lexanda Angela Minakovska ( who later converted to Islam and chose the name Atiye after her husband's death ), was the member of a Polish Catholic family of the Lithuanian aristocracy ; while her father, Hasanzade İbrahim Bey ( who later adopted the surname Çeyrekgil following the Surname Law of 1934 ) was a wealthy businessman who descended from a Turkish family of the Sunni Muslim faith, from the city of Safranbolu.

Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani became President, with Shi ' ite UIA and SCIRI member Adel Abdul Mahdi and outgoing Sunni President Ghazi al-Yawar as his deputies.

Many Bastakis emigrated to Dubai, Bahrain, and Kuwait after refusing to pay taxes to Nasir al-Din, the last member of the Qajar dynasty and refusing to give up their Sunni faith.

The Atassi forum was shut down after a member had read a statement from the banned Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist organization which had rebelled against the government of Hafiz al-Assad in the early 1980s by murdering thousands of government officials and civilians, which culminated in the Hama Massacre, a dark time in Syrians ' memories.