During that time, while studying at Kabul University, Massoud became involved with the Sazman-i Jawanan-i Musulman (" Organization of Muslim Youth "), the student branch of the Jamiat-i Islami (" Islamic Society "), whose chairman then was professor Burhanuddin Rabbani.

Yassin subsequently became involved with a Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

* Sunni Islam, the largest branch of Islam, comprising up to 90 % of the total Muslim population of the world

* Muslim League ( Pakistan ), the Pakistani branch of the All-India Muslim League, which was disbanded and replaced by the Pakistan Muslim League.

A branch museum in Jerusalem -— expected to be completed in 2009 -— sparked protests from the city's Muslim population.

Abashidze was born into a renowned Muslim Ajarian family, a branch of the Abashidze princely house.

On one account, a man wanted to know that if a Shia Muslim died and there happened to be Murjites present ( followers of Islamic school Murji ' ah ) while the washed wanted to wash the corpse, whether the washer should wash the body like the Murjites ( no turban or palm branch ) or not.

Although Sayyid Qutb was never head ( or " Supreme Guide ") of the Muslim Brotherhood, he was the Brotherhood's " leading intellectual ," editor of its weekly periodical, and a member of the highest branch in the Brotherhood, the Working Committee and of the Guidance Council.

By religious affiliation, most are Muslim, particularly of the Sunni branch of Islam.

* Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland: German branch of the Worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

Bakri joined the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood as a young man but did not participate in their 1982 Hama revolt against the Syrian Ba ' ath Party and the government of Hafez al-Assad.

The journalist Robert Dreyfuss in his book Hostage to Khomeini described how the Muslim Student Association is just a front organization for the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization. He also describes how Ibrahim Yazdi, the founder of the Iranian branch of the Muslim Student Association became one of the key supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini and served in the early government of the Islamic republic. Robert Dreyfuss discusses how the Muslim Student Association has funnelled money to various Islamic terrorist organizations.

Coppola also had a role as a Muslim intelligence analyst working for the Los Angeles branch of the Counter Terrorist Unit ( CTU ), in a single episode of 24, named Azara ( 1 – 2 am during Day 4 ).

Po Dharma divides the Muslim Cham in Cambodia into a traditionalist branch and an orthodox branch.

After graduating, he returned to Sudan and became a member of the Islamic Charter Front, an offshoot of the Sudanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

With few exceptions, Somalis are entirely Muslims, the majority belonging to the Sunni branch of Islam and the Shafi ` i school of Islamic jurisprudence, although some are also adherents of the Shia Muslim denomination.

All of the Cham Muslims are Sunnis of the Shafi ' i school .. Po Dharma divides the Muslim Cham in Cambodia into a traditionalist branch and an orthodox branch.

Bilateral relations are excellent between the two predominantly moderate Muslim nations.

Following a protracted legal process culminating in a court ruling favorable to the Bahá ' ís, the interior minister of Egypt released a decree on April 14, 2009, amending the law to allow Egyptians who are not Muslim, Christian, or Jewish to obtain identification documents that list dash in place of one of the three recognized religions.

Criticism of Christianity continues to date, e. g. Jewish and Muslim theologians criticize the doctrine of the Trinity held by most Christians, stating that this doctrine in effect assumes that there are three Gods, running against the basic tenet of monotheism.

Due to the large Muslim population in western China, many Chinese restaurants cater to, or are run by, Muslims.

While some are dark skinned and insist on their own customs, others are of the same color and are Christians or Muslim like the communities they live in.

Unforeseeable, overwhelming, or seemingly unjust events are often thrown on ' the will of the Divine ', in deferences like the Muslim inshallah (' as God wills it ') and Christian ' God works in mysterious ways '.

Muslim men could generally marry dhimmi women who are considered " People of the Book ," however Islamic jurists rejected the possibility any non-Muslim man might marry a Muslim woman.

Also forbidden are political parties supporting militia formations or having an agenda that is contradictory to the constitution and its principles, or threatening the country's stability such as national unity between Muslim Egyptians and Christian Egyptians.

The Muslim Brotherhood and the National Democratic Party are considered the best organized political groups in Egypt.

The Jeberti, some of whom do not consider themselves to be " Tigray-Tigrinya " are Muslim and account for about 5 % of the Tigrinya people there.

They are a predominantly Muslim nomadic people who inhabit the northern, western, and coastal lowlands of Eritrea, where they constitute 30 % of local residents.

They are predominately Muslim and are the only ethnic group in Eritrea to have Arabic as their communal language.

They speak the Afar language as a mother tongue, and are predominately Muslim.

They are predominately Muslim, although a few Christians known as the Irob live in the Debub Region of Eritrea and the Tigray region of Ethiopia.

Muslim adherents are mainly rural and have interbred with the adjacent Tigre.

Group members are predominately Muslim and communicate in Hedareb as a first language.

They are generally Muslim, with a few Christians and some practising their indigenous beliefs.

Therefore, two main views on Ezekiel are popular in Muslim theology:

Muslim exegesis further lists Ezekiel's father as Buzi ( Budhi ) and Ezekiel is given the title ibn al-adjus, denoting " son of the old ", as his parents are supposed to have been very old when he was born.

Blas Infante, in his book Orígenes de lo flamenco y secreto del cante jondo, suggested that the word may derive from Andalusian Arabic fellah mengu, " Escapee Peasant ", referring to the formerly Muslim Andalusians ( Moriscos ), who stayed in Spain and, according to certain modern authors, are supposed to have mixed with the Romani newcomers.

50 % are Muslims — this makes Guinea-Bissau the only Portuguese-speaking nation with a Muslim majority and most Muslims are Sunnis ; 40 % are pagans, principally Fula and Mandinka.

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.