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  2. Sunni Islam - Wikipedia

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    Sunni Islam ( / ˈsuːni, ˈsʊni /) is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world. Its name comes from the word Sunnah, referring to the tradition of Muhammad. [ 1][ 2] The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagreement over ...

  3. Khwarazmian Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Khwarazmian Empire[ note 2] ( English: / kwəˈræzmiən / ), [ 10] also called the Empire of the Khwarazmshahs[ 11][ note 3] or simply Khwarazm[ note 4], was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim empire of Turkic mamluk origin. [ 12][ 13] Khwarazmians ruled large parts of present-day Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran from 1077 to 1231 ...

  4. Hanafi school - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Muslim world. Hanafi (light green) is the Sunni school predominant in Turkey, Central Asia, Bosnia, the Western Middle East, Western and Nile river region of Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and parts of Southeast Europe, India, China and Russia. [8] [10] An estimated third of all Muslims living in Muslim-majority countries worldwide ...

  5. Sunnitization in the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia

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    Legal. Sunnitization was enforced and strengthened through laws, policies, bans, and fatwas . During the 16th century, efforts led by figures like Ebussuud Efendi, an Ottoman Hanafi Maturidi jurist and Shayk al-Islam of Ottoman Empire from 1545 to 1574, aimed to reconcile Ottoman sultanic laws ( kanun) with shari’a principles by embedding the ...

  6. Tijaniyyah - Wikipedia

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    The Tijani order ( Arabic: الطريقة التجانية, romanized : al-Ṭarīqa al-Tijāniyya) is a Sufi order of Sunni Islam named after Ahmad al-Tijani. It originated in the Maghreb but now more widespread in West Africa, particularly in Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Guinea, Niger, Chad, Ghana, Northern and Southwestern Nigeria and ...

  7. Shia–Sunni divide - Wikipedia

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    Numbers. Sunni Muslims are the vast majority of Muslims in most Muslim communities in Central Asia (including China), Europe (including Russia and the Balkans), South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Arab World, Turkey and among Muslims in the United States.

  8. Hanbali school - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Muslim world. Hanbali (dark green) is the predominant Sunni school in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. [12] [5]Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the founder of Hanbali school of thought (), was a disciple of the Sunni Imam Al-Shafi‘i, who was reportedly a student of Imam Malik ibn Anas, [13] [14]: 121 who was a student of the Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, like Imam Abu Hanifa.

  9. Islamic schools and branches - Wikipedia

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    The Muslim Brotherhood is not concerned with theological differences, accepting both, Muslims of any of the four Sunni schools of thought, and Shi'a Muslims. It is the world's oldest and largest Islamist group. Its aims are to re-establish the Caliphate and in the meantime, push for more Islamisation of society.