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.

The main religions are Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholicism, and Sunni Islam.

Eventually the Chechens converted to Sunni Islam, largely encouraged by the motive of receiving help from the Ottoman Empire against Russian encroachment.

The above mentioned reports are adopted from the authentic sources explaining Shia Islam, and Sunni Islam.,

While Sunni and Shia Islam differ sharply on the conduct of a caliph and the right relations between a leader and a community, they do not differ on the underlying theory of stewardship.

In 1305, after the issuing of a fatwa by the scholar Ibn Taymiyyah calling for jihad against all non-Sunni Muslims like the Druze, Alawites, Ismaili, and twelver Shiites, al-Malik al-Nasir inflicted a disastrous defeat on the Druze at Keserwan and forced outward compliance on their part to orthodox Sunni Islam.

At the end of the 17th century ( 1697 ) the Shihabs succeeded the Ma ' ans in the feudal leadership of Druze southern Lebanon, although they reportedly professed Sunni Islam, they showed sympathy with Druzism, the religion of the majority of their subjects.

85 % of the Tigre people adhere to the Islamic religion Sunni Islam, but there are a considerable amount of Christians among them as well ( often referred to as the Mensaï in Eritrea ).

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.

These leaders are known as the " Rashidun " or " rightly guided " Caliphs in Sunni Islam.

The two largest denominations of Islam, Shiʻa and Sunni, have different sets of hadith collections.

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.

The Sunni branch of Islam does not have imams in the same sense as the Shi ' a, an important distinction often overlooked by those outside of the Islamic faith.

for a recognized religious scholar or authority in Islam, often for the founding scholars of the four Sunni madhhabs, or schools of jurisprudence ( fiqh ).

Eschatology relates to one of the six ( seven according to Shī ‘ a traditions ) articles of faith ( aqīdah ) of Islam according to the Sunni traditions.

A minority among the Sunni scholars sometimes refer to this duty as the sixth pillar of Islam, though it occupies no such official status.

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

The son of a Hindu Rajput mother who converted to Islam, Jahangir made the precepts of Sunni Islam the cornerstone of his state policies.

Activities of all but the officially recognized Russian Orthodox and Sunni Muslim faiths are severely limited.

Sunni jurists use analogy and historical consensus of the community.

Shi ' a Muslims do not use the six major hadith collections followed by the Sunni.

Shi ' a Muslims do not use the six major hadith collections followed by the Sunni.

The Sunni and Shia sects of Islam typically forbid all use of magic.

The attack marked the first time Sunni Islamists had made use of suicide in terrorism, a technique made famous by Shia Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The Paderi movement, which has been compared to the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah ( Sunni ) school of Islam in Saudi Arabia, was an effort to return the Islam of the area to the purity of its roots by removing local distortions like gambling, cockfighting, the use of opium and strong drink, tobacco, and so forth.

An early use in mainstream media is a San Francisco Chronicle article of September 14, 2002 in which former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter says: " We may be able to generate support for an invasion among some of the Shiites and some of the Kurds, but to get to Baghdad you must penetrate the Sunni Triangle.

" However, it did not achieve widespread use until a New York Times article of June 10, 2003 popularised the term in a report on " a new U. S. effort to quell nascent armed resistance in Sunni Muslim-dominated areas north and west of Baghdad an area known as the ' Sunni triangle '.

Shi ' as corroborate the revelation of the Quranic verse 5: 55 with the incident widely narrated in both Sunni and Shia narrations ( ahadith ) where Ali gave his ring in charity to a beggar while bowing in prayer, and cite the verses use of the word إ ِ ن َّ م َ ا to indicate that the subjects are specific, not general.

The term has been in use since the Middle Ages but today refers especially to a follower of a modern Sunni Islamic movement known as Salafiyyah or Salafism, which is related to or includes Wahhabism ( a name which some of its proponents consider derogatory, preferring the term Salafism ), so that the two terms are often viewed as synonymous.

This terminology came into a general use around the world, since Sunni Islam has been the dominant Islamic tradition, and for a long time it has been considered the most authoritative source of information about Islam in the Western world.

He further forbade the use of two prayers – Salāt at-Tarāwih and Salāt ad-Duha as they were believed to have been formulated by Sunni sages.

* Modern Sunni Kurds of Iran use this term to denote Persians and Southern Kurds.

Both Sunni Islam and Shia Islam share Qur ' anic interpretation ( tafsīṛ ), the pattern of Muhammad ( sunnah ), and scholarly consensus ijma as sources of Islamic law, although the two differ significantly with regards to the manner in which they use these sources.

Their religious ideology is very much in line with the traditional Sunni doctrines, although the groups sometimes unrestrained use of takfir has brought them under discension by the wider Islamic community.

The minority Shi ' a and majority Sunni both agree on the essential details for the performance of these acts, but the Shi ' a do not refer to them by the same name ( see Ancillaries of the Faith, for the Twelvers, and Seven pillars of Ismailism ).

Sunni and Shia Islam Muslims see each other as heterodox, differing in practice mainly on matters of jurisprudence or fiqh, splitting historically on the matter of the succession of Ali to the caliphate by Muawiyah.

Islam emphasizes unity and defense of fellow Muslims, although many schools and branches ( see Shi ' a – Sunni relations, for example ) exist.

Shi ' i Muslims see his being killed at the hands of Muawiyah's army as significant because of a well-known hadith, present in both the Shia and Sunni books of hadith, narrated by Abu Hurayrah and others, in which the Prophet is recorded to have said: " Rejoice Ammar!

According to CBS, in 2004 the ethnic makeup of the city was 99. 9 % Sunni Muslim Arab citizens of Israel ( see also: Population groups in Israel ).

These are revered in Sunni Islamic orthodoxy and their example used in understanding the texts and tenets of Islam by Sunni theologians since the fifth Muslim generation or earlier, sometimes to differentiate the creed of the first Muslims from subsequent variations in creed and methodology ( see Madhab ), to oppose religious innovation ( bid ‘ ah ) and, conversely, to defend particular views and practices.

While their program of united resistance to Russian conquest was popular, uniting Ichkeria / Mishketia with Dagestan was not necessarily ( see Shamil's page ), especially as some Chechens still practiced the indigenous religion, most Chechen Muslims belonged to heterodox Sufi Muslim teachings ( divided between Qadiri and Naqshbandiya, with a strong Qadiri majority ), rather than the more orthodox Sunni Islam of Dagestan ; and finally, the rule of Ichkeria by a foreign ruler not only spurred distrust, but also threatened the existence of Ichkeria's indigenous " taip-conference " government structure.

On the other hand, Sunni historians see the treaty as conferring great benefits on the Muslim Empire in years to come.

The majority of Kano Muslims are Sunni, though a minority adhere to the Shia branch ( see Shia in Nigeria ).

In Awadh, Sunni Muslims did not want to see a return to Shiite rule, so they often refused to join what they perceived to be a Shia rebellion.

" This is contrary to the mainstream Sunni belief that Muslims will see God with their eyes on the day of Judgment.

Most of the Muslims in Bulgaria are Sunni Muslims as Sunni Islam was the form of Islam promoted by the Ottoman Empire during their five-century rule of Bulgaria ( see History of Bulgaria ).

All mainstream Muslim scholars ' perspectives from both Sunni and Shia sects do not see the second coming of the Messiah as the coming of a new prophet, as the Islamic Messiah Jesus of Nazareth had already been an existing prophet, and will rule by the Qur ' an and Sunnah of the prophet Muhammad, bringing no new revelation or prophecy.