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 mountainous territory of Mount Lebanon has long been a shelter for minority and persecuted groups, including its historic Maronite Christian majority along with Druze, and local Shi ' a Muslims.

The rule of the Al Saud faces political opposition from four sources: Sunni Islamist activism ; liberal critics ; the Shi ' ite minority – particularly in the Eastern Province ; and long-standing tribal and regional particularistic opponents ( for example in the Hejaz ).

The nation is 88 % Muslim ( mostly Sunni, with a 5 % Shi ' a minority ), 9 % Eastern Orthodox and 3 % other faiths ( which include small communities of Korean Christians, other Christian denominations, Buddhists, Baha ' is, and more ).

# 12th century: The Assassins extend their activities into Syria, where they could get much support from the local Shi ' i minority as the Seljuq sultanate had captured this territory.

The largest Shi ' a sect believes that the current imam is in " occultation ", hidden away until the last days, but there are minority Shi ' a who follow leaders believed to be infallible imams.

Taqiyya was developed to protect Shi ' ites who were usually in minority and under pressure.

Shi ' is lived mostly as a minority among a frequently-hostile Sunni majority-until the rise of Safavid dynasty.

This is sometimes explained by the minority position Shi ' ites had under the political dominance of Sunni Muslims, requiring them to protect themselves through concealment and dissimulation.

" It 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.

Today, the Lezgins are predominately Sunni Muslims, with a Shi ' a minority living in Miskindja village in Daghestan.

The Shi ' a minority live along Al Batinah and Muscat coasts.

Among the Shi ' a minority, some have their origins in different parts of South Asia, while others are adherents of the Shia Ismaili sect from East Africa.

Nowadays Islam is the religion of 100 % of Iranians, approximately 92 % of Iranians are Shi ' a and 8 % are Sunni, mostly Turkomen, a minority of Arabs ( mainly in Hormozgan Province ), Baluchs, and Kurds living in the south, southeast, northeast and northwest.

They are majority Shi ' a, with Sunni minority and small numbers of Christians and Jews.

" extremists ", the adjectival form of ghulū ), is a term used in the theology of Shia Islam to describe some minority Muslim groups who either ascribe divine characteristics to figure of Islamic history -- mostly, but not always a member of Muhammad's family ( ahl al-bayt ) -- or hold beliefs deemed deviant by mainstream Shi ' i theology.

Prince Ahmed was given the task of introducing reforms in the Eastern Province in the early 1980s to improve the province where the kingdom ’ s Shi ’ ite minority lives.

It was reported that he does not basically alter the security policies of Saudi Arabia since the country faces a threat from al Qaeda in Yemen and experiences an unrest among its Shi ' ite Muslim minority.

However a small minority group strove to keep alive those narrations, mainly through the descendants of the male Shi ' as that survived the Battle of Karbala.

The population are mainly Shi ' a Muslims but Sunni minority do exist, and the language they speak is Minabi ( locally Minow ), a dialect which is something between Bandari and Balochi and Persian.

Try to imagine a market in which only a minority of traders would lose, and the majority would make consistent profits.

Anyone still doubting that this is the only way markets can be is invited to try to imagine a market wherein the majority consistently wins what the minority loses.

# Bonuses for majority and minority shareholders.

The player with the largest number of shares is the " majority " shareholder, and the player with the second-largest number of shares is the " minority " shareholder.

Alex is the majority shareholder, and Betty is the minority shareholder. Suppose now that Worldwide is the chain being acquired.

Alex and Betty would share the majority and minority bonuses, and Carla would get no bonus.

If instead Betty and Carla both owned 7 shares, then Alex would keep the majority bonus for herself, while Betty and Carla would split the minority bonus.

Once the game ends, the minority and majority bonuses are paid to the minority and majority holders in each of the remaining chains ; each player sells his or her shares of stock in each of the remaining chains ; and the player with the most money wins.

Spencer saw tariffs as a form of taxation that levied against the majority in service to “ the benefit of a small minority of manufacturers and artisans ”.

Thus, small minority parties cannot easily enter the Bundestag and prevent the formation of stable majority governments as they could under the Weimar constitution.

As a minority owner of the Milwaukee Braves, Selig founded the organization Teams, Inc, in an attempt to prevent the majority owners ( based out of Chicago ) from moving the club to a larger television market.

Usually, a meeting which is held without notice having been given is still valid if all of the directors attend, but it has been held that a failure to give notice may negate resolutions passed at a meeting, because the persuasive oratory of a minority of directors might have persuaded the majority to change their minds and vote otherwise.

Soon, however, the terminology changed to " Bolsheviks " and " Mensheviks ", from the Russian " bolshinstvo " ( majority ) and " menshinstvo " ( minority ), based on the fact that Lenin believed that most of the party stood behind him.

To deal with a situation in which no clear majorities appear through general elections, parties either form coalition cabinets, supported by a parliamentary majority, or minority cabinets which may consist of one or more parties.

Cabinets based on a coalition with majority in a parliament, ideally, are more stable and long-lived than minority cabinets.

Apart from this, when no party has had a majority, minority governments normally have been formed with one or more opposition parties agreeing to vote for the legislation governments need to function, as the Labour government of James Callaghan formed a coalition with the Liberals in 1977 when it lost its narrow majority gained at the October 1974 election.

Electrons which diffuse from the cathode into the P-doped layer, or anode, become what is termed " minority carriers " and tend to recombine there with the majority carriers, which are holes, on a timescale characteristic of the material which is the p-type minority carrier lifetime.

In essence this led to a situation where a minority of this majority remained within the Central Committee ...

It has two main groups: " straights ", now the minority, emphasize vitalism, innate intelligence and spinal adjustments, and consider vertebral subluxations to be the cause of all disease ; " mixers ", the majority, are more open to mainstream views and conventional medical techniques, such as exercise, massage, and ice therapy.

Schottky diodes are majority carrier devices and so do not suffer from minority carrier storage problems that slow down many other diodes — so they have a faster reverse recovery than p – n junction diodes.

Fighting was primarily between the majority Shia and the minority Sunni.

As a result these powerful militias, it seemed as of late 2006, were leading reprisal acts of violence against the Sunni minority.

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

Majority of the population are Sunni while Shias are the minority.

However, they were ordered not to threaten or harm any government officials or anyone affiliated with the Sunni minority.

The inhabitants of northern Mesopotamia were made up of Sunni Muslim Kurds and Turks, although there was a significant Yazidi minority in that region as well.

* suspicion of Arab unity by minority groups such as Kurds in Iraq who were non-Arab, or Shia Muslims in Iraq who feared Arab nationalism was actually " a Sunni project " to establish " Sunni hegemony ";

While members of the Sunni Muslim minority do not have reserved seats in the majlis, they were not allowed to serve in the body.

All of the minority religious groups, including Sunni Muslims, were barred from being elected president.

Iran's Sunni minority ( about 8 %) has seen some unrest.

It has always been a minority religion, with the majority state religions — Zoroastrianism before the Islamic conquest, Sunni Islam in the Middle Ages and Shia Islam in modern times — though it had a much larger representation in the past than it does today.

Al Rubaie received international acclaim for his achievements in isolating Al Qai ' ida from the Sunni mainstream and bringing the Sunni community to the negotiating table with the Shia-led Government as well as his protection of Iraq's vulnerable Christian minority and was awarded the " The Annual Prize For Peace Making In The Middle East " at the House of Lords on 18 February 2009 presented by Lord Hylton of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East.

Muslim Sindhis tend to follow the Sunni Hanafi fiqh with a substantial minority of Shia Ithna ' ashariyah.

The small Georgian minority in Turkey is also Sunni Muslim.

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