Sunni Islam
Sunnism

Sunni Islam: dominant in the rest of the regions mentioned above.

Sunni Islam is the main religion of the people.

However, the institution of Sunni Islam did not last very long.

Sunni Islam is sometimes referred to as the orthodox version of the religion.

His works also strengthened the status of Sunni Islam against other schools.

Sunni Islam also has the idea of beatific vision.

He converted to Sunni Islam a few years later.

Among the people with faith, the majority of the residents adhere to Sunni Islam.

She decides to convert to Sunni Islam after being influenced by her friends.

Today most inhabitants follow Sunni Islam which is the predominant religion.

Sunni Islam is the predominant religion and widely practiced.

In distinction, Sunni Islam foresees him as a separate and new person.

Jerusalem is considered by some as the third-holiest city in Sunni Islam.

This has been perhaps the most critical dispute within violent, extremist Sunni Islam.

Those who reached faced extinction or forced conversion to Sunni Islam.

The term is also used to talk about certain teachings of Sunni Islam that are based on "conservative" ideals.

In Sunni Islam there are four main schools of thought, they are:

The majority of the population follow Sunni Islam.

Sunni Islam sets the religious tone for Syria and provides the country's basic values.

Today, most of the population follows Sunni Islam.

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

Sunni Islam in Sudan is not marked by a uniform body of belief and practice, however.

Sunni Islam is more decentralized among local imams.

About 90% of the people are followers of Sunni Islam.

Muslims call it the third holiest site in Sunni Islam .

They did not know anything about their new faith, or even concerning Sunnism.

He aimed at no less than the complete destruction of Sunnism.

Sunnism is the most prominent sect to hold this belief.

Externally he presented the policy as a wholesale conversion to Sunnism.

Mainstream Sunnism has been said to be "about" Sharia, sacred law.

There are many such incidents and solid evidences that prove his loyalty towards Sunnism.

However, the scheme to establish this form of Sunnism as the state religion failed to win support among most of the population.

Shiaism differs with Sunnism on not only political issues, but also important theological issues.

Iran was a Shia country and gradually became an isolated island surrounded by a sea of Sunnism.

Zahedan is a centre for Sunnism in Baluchistan.

No matter what happens in Iraq, neither Shi'ism nor Sunnism is going to disappear.

He was determined to wipe out Sunnism and forced the Shiah on his subjects with a ruthlessness rarely attempted before.

This doctrine, developed in Sunnism as well by the Mu'tazili, stresses the importance of man's responsibility for his own actions.

Ultimately, "the majority of Muslims seems immune to any attempts by other sects to penetrate it (Sunnism) or diminish its historical power."

They are demanding that the state recognize Aleviness as an official Islamic community equal to, but different from, Sunnism.

It despises local saints and mystical practices (like those of Sufism) and any other departures from the most rigid Sunnism.

As a religious Muslim sect they did not subscribe to the doctrine of Sunnism and Shi'ism.

The Baluch are primarily Muslims, practicing Hanafi branch of Sunnism.

The Persians were not simply ordered to adopt Sunnism as practiced elsewhere in the Muslim world; they were to retain their own discrete religious identity.

Initially most Yemenis converted to Sunnism, but over the next few centuries individual Shiite sects, such as the Zaydis, were born.

Consequently, in the territory that came fully under his control, he was astonishingly successful in enforcing the conversion of the populace from Sunnism to Shiism.

Banu Khazal was converted from Sunnism to Shi'ism in the early 18th century.

Islam is represented mainly by the Shi'a branch (twelver) and to a much lesser extent by Sunnism in Azerbaijan.

It argues the case that, as in Shi'ism, religious authority was concentrated in the head of state, rather than dispersed among learned laymen as in Sunnism.

Ulama grew in prominence as the Samanids gave special support to Sunnism, in contrast with their Shiite neighbors, the Buyids.