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Although once it was clear that the Sassanids would soon fall, the Kurdish chiefs one by one submitted to the Muslim armies and agreed to accept Islam, leading to their tribe members doing the same. [13] Today the majority of Kurds are Sunni Muslims, and there are Shia, Sufi, and Alevi minorities. Sunni Muslim Kurds are mostly Shafi'is. [14]
Most Kurds are Sunni Muslims who adhere to the Shafiʽi school, while a significant minority adhere to the Hanafi school [62] and also Alevism. Moreover, many Shafi'i Kurds adhere to either one of the two Sufi orders Naqshbandi and Qadiriyya. [63] Beside Sunni Islam, Alevism and Shia Islam also have millions of Kurdish followers. [64]
The great mosque in Mardin. The majority of Kurdish people are Muslim by religion. [1] [2] [3] While the relationship between religion and nationalism has usually been strained and ambivalent with the strong hold of the Islamic leaders in Kurdish society, it has generally been the conservative Muslim Kurds who formed the backbone of the Kurdish movements.
Kurds developed an own typical genetic profile called "Modal Kurdish Haplotype" (KMH or MKMH for Muslim Kurds) on subclade J2-M172 with the following loci: 14-15-23-10-11-12. The highest percentage of this haplotype has been measured so far in Yezidis in Armenia: Yezidis in Armenia: 11.9%, Muslim Kurds of Iraq: 9.5%,
Islam historically was the mainstay of the Kurdish independence movement, and it remained so until the Kurdish independence movement was later dominated by secular nationalists. [4] This was evident during the Sheikh Said rebellion and Mahmud Barzanji revolts , and also the revolts led by Osman Abdulaziz , Mashouq al-Khaznawi , Sheikh ...
The Islamic Emirate of Kurdistan was treated as a Kurdish state under Islamic law rather than an Islamic state composed of Kurds. When both the emirate and Ansar al-Islam were dissolved following Operation Viking Hammer, Mullah Krekar claimed that the PUK had no nationalism. However, he urged Ansar al-Islam to be lenient on captured PUK soldiers.
Fakhr-un-Nisa (1091-1179) was the first female Kurdish Islamic scholar, muhaddith and calligrapher. [18] The Abulfeda crater in the Moon was named after Kurdish Islamic geographer and historian Abulfeda (1273-1331). [19] Menüçehr Mosque, the first mosque in the current borders of Turkey, was built in 1072 by the Kurdish Sunni Muslim dynasty ...
Kurdish Sunni Muslims (1 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Kurdish Muslims" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent ...