Sunni Islam

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Countries with more than 5% Muslims in the total population. Sunnis are shown in shades of green, Shiites in shades of red. Shiites may be under-represented, because they do not always show up in statistics. The same applies to other Islamic movements.

Sunni Islam (Arabic: أهل السنة) is the largest branch of Islam. They are the branch of Islam that came through the Rashidun Empire, which started with Abu Bakr and ended by Ali ibn Abi Talib. Sunni beliefs are based on the Quran and the Kutub al-Sittah. Sunnis make up around 90% of the world's Muslim population. With approximately 1.8 billion followers, it is the largest religious denomination of any religion in the world. Catholicism is the second-largest. There are four sub-groups (Madh'hab)s within Sunni Islam; Malikis, Hanafis, Hanbalis and Shafi'is.

Adherents of Sunni Islam are Sunnis or Sunnites. The word Sunni comes from the word sunna (سنة), which means the tradition of the prophet of Islam, Muhammad. Sunnis are also called ahl as-sunnah wa l-jamāʻah (Arabic: أهل السنة والجماعة), which means people of tradition and congregation; this means that the Sunnis are united.

Sunni Islam Media

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  Masjid al-Haram, the home of the Kaaba, in Mecca is the largest and most important mosque in the world.

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  Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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  The Great Mosque of Kairouan (also known as the Mosque of Uqba) in the city of Kairouan, Tunisia, was, particularly from the 9th to 11th century, an important center of Islamic learning with an emphasis on the Maliki Madh'hab.

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  Historic Quran of Old Dhaka, Bangladesh

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  Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

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  Ahmed el-Tayeb, Great-Imam of Azhar, was one of the most important participants of the Sunni-conference in Grozny, distanced himself from the declaration

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• Shia Islam
• Uthmaniyya
• Sunnah
• Non-denominational Muslims

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