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Sunni Islam [a] (/ ˈ s uː n i /; Arabic: أهل السنة, romanized: Ahl as-Sunnah, lit. 'The People of the Sunnah') is the largest denomination of Islam , followed by 87–90% of the world's Muslims , and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
With its various branches, it is the largest Sunni movement in the Arab world, and an affiliate is often the largest opposition party in many Arab nations. 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.
Islam [a] is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran, believing in Allah (lit. ' The God '), [9] and the teachings of Muhammad, [10] the religion's founder. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number 1.9 billion worldwide and are the world's second-largest religious population after Christians. [11]
A CIA World Factbook report from 2015 estimates that 29–34% of the population of Iraq is Sunni Muslim. [2] According to a 2011 survey by Pew Research, 42% of Iraqi Muslims are Sunni. [3] There were about 9 million Sunni Arabs , 5 million Sunni Kurds and 3 million Sunni Turkmens in Iraq, according to a report published in 2015. [4]
The Muslim population of the world map by percentage of each country, according to the Pew Forum (assessed on 29 June 2014). Islam by country World percentage of Muslims by country
Shia Muslims do not follow the Kutub al-Sittah (six major hadith collections) followed in Sunni Islam, therefore in Shia and Sunni Islam, the sunnah refer to different collections of religious canonical literature. The primary collections of Shia community were written by three authors known as the "Three Muhammads", [117] and they are:
Converts to Sunni Islam (2 C, 18 P) D. Deobandis (16 C, 390 P) G. ... Pages in category "Sunni Muslims" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.
The four Sunni Imams founded the four madhhab (schools of thought) recognized in Sunni Islam. While they agree on the foundational principles of fiqh according to the Sunni narrative, their interpretations of certain legal and practical matters differ, which led to the development of the four distinct madhhab.