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Sunni and Islam
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.
Sunni Islam severely limits the use of visual representations ( see Islamic art ).
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.

Sunni and majority
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 ).
A Lebanese public opinion poll taken in August 2006 shows that most of the Shia did not believe that Hezbollah should disarm after the 2006 Lebanon war, while the majority of Sunni, Druze and Christians believed that they should.
Fighting was primarily between the majority Shia and the minority Sunni.
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 ).
The majority of the kingdom's inhabitants were native Christians, especially Greek and Syrian Orthodox, as well as Sunni and Shi ' a Muslims.
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 ).
The majority of the Syrian military are Sunni, but most of the military leadership are Alawites.
Sidon is a conservative city with a Sunni Muslim majority: Sunnis make up approximately ( 80 %) of the local population, Shiites and Christians combined make up ( 20 %).
However, this had proven to completely backfire both on Iraq and on the part of the Arab states, for Khomeini was widely perceived as a hero for managing to defend Iran and maintain the war with little foreign support against the heavily backed Iraq and only managed to boost Islamic radicalism not only within the Arab states, but within Iraq itself, creating new tensions between the Sunni Ba ' ath Party and the majority Shiite population.
A large majority of the Muslim population is Sunni.
About 90 % of Egypt's population is Muslim, with a Sunni majority.
An estimated 80-89 % of the population practice Sunni Islam and belong to the Hanafi Islamic law school while 10-19 % are Shi ' a, majority of the Shia follow the Twelver branch with smaller numbers of Ismailis.
Shia and Sunni Islamic parties have both criticised the government over the composition of the appointed Shura Council, after it was given a strongly liberal majority, with Al Meethaq being the biggest group in the chamber.
Views within Sunni Islam branched off even further in later generations, with Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari and Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi defining even a simple majority view as constituting consensus and Ibn Taymiyyah restricting consensus to the view of the religiously learned only.
* The Day of Ashura, which is the tenth day of Muharram as well as either a day before, or a day after ( while the Sunni majority take part in this, Shi ' ites refrain due to their sect-specific regard for the day as one of mourning.
The economic handle the Sunni minoritiy had over the poorer Alawi majority was a source of a long-standing grudge.
This was attributed to the majority of Alawites being peasants " exploited by a predominantly Sunni landowning class resident in Latakia and Hama.
In terms of religion, the majority of Kurds, Arabs are Sunni Muslim while Turkmen are mostly Shi ' ite, Assyrians and Armenians are exclusively Christian, and Yazidis, Shabaks and Mandeans following their own religious beliefs.
Further complicating al-Askari ’ s term was the growing Shi ’ i discontent in Iraq with massive protests occurring across the country in response to a book written by a Sunni official criticizing the Shi ’ i majority as well as the promotion of the commanding officer of an army unit that opened fire on Shiite demonstrators during a rally.
The majority of Syria's population in the 12th century consisted of Sunni Muslims, typically from Arab or Kurdish backgrounds.
The vast majority of the early traditional Sunni Muslim scholars have either criticized or prohibited it.
Tripoli's population has been estimated to be 500, 000 and the majority of these are Sunni Muslims.
The " Sunni Triangle " should not be confused with the so-called " Triangle of Death ", an area south of Baghdad inhabited by Sunni majority which was the focus of major combat activity in November and December 2004.

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