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2006 al-Askari Mosque bombing

In the city of Madain (Ctesiphon), Sunni insurgents fired two rockets at the tomb of Salman the Persian, causing damage but no casualties.

Adel al-Zubeidi

He was killed on November 8, 2005, by three gunmen driving in either an Opel or a "government vehicle" outside Adil, a Sunni neighbourhood of Baghdad.

Adhaalath Party

Former Adhaalath Party leader, Sheikh Hussain Rasheed Ahmed, accused former President Maumoon Abdul Gayyoom of not being a Sunni Muslim; however, the courts controlled by the dictatorship of Maumoon dismissed these charges as baseless.

Ahmed Khalaf Dheyabi

The Anbar governorate election was held in June 2013, amidst on-going demonstrations in Sunni Arab majority areas.

Ali al-Shemari

Al-Shemari's deputy, Hakim al-Zamili, and his security chief, Hamid al-Shammari, were arrested and tried in 2007 on claims they ran a death squad that attacked Sunni Arabs patients and visitors in Health Ministry hospitals.

Ansar-ul-Islam

Ansar ul-Islam: a Barelvi Sunni Muslim group in the Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan

Ba 'Alawiyya

For about 800 years, the city of Tarim in Hadhramaut has been the centre of learning in Islamic jurisprudence or fiqh, notably of the Shafi Sunni school.

Bitlis

In 1898 Lynch considered the population to be close to 30,000, comprising 10,000 Armenians, 300 Syrians, and the rest Muslim Kurds (both Alevis and Sunnis included).

Budhal

Their customs are similar to other tribes in the vicinity, speaking the Pothohari language and following Sunni Islam.

Demographics of Yemen

Religion in Yemen consists primarily of two principal Islamic religious groups: 53% of the Muslim population is Sunni and over 45% is Shia, according to the UNHCR.

Education in Bahrain

Families of a predominately religious background often sent their children to religious institutions in the region, to madrasas in Mecca and Al-Hasa in mainland Arabia for Sunni students and to Najaf and Karbala for Shia students.

Əsədabad

The population is almost totally made up of ethnic Talish/Talysh—an Iranian-speaking people whose Sunni Islamic religion distinguish them from the surrounding Turkic-speaking Shia Azeris (in all sides but the south) and the similarly Iranian-speaking, but Shia Muslim Gilanis /Gilaks to their south.

Fadwa Soliman

Fadwa Soliman or Fadwa Suleiman (Arabic فدوى سليمان) is a Syrian actress of an Alawite descent who also became known for leading a sunni-majority protest against the Bashar al-Assad's government in Homs.

Four Friends

"The Four Friends", a term used in Sunni Islam to refer to the Rashidun, the first four Caliphs (namely Abu Bakr, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan and Ali ibn Abi Talib)

Ghadiya

Abu Ghadiya (1978?-2008), a Sunni militant active with al-Qaeda in Iraq

Hijri Dede

The poet, as almost all of the other Gurani, was usually quite secretive about his religious beliefs and practices: when asked by outsiders, he would often claim to be Orthodox Sunni or, sometimes, Twelver Shi'a.

Iraqi Council

Iraqi National Dialogue Council, a Sunni Arab political party initially established as an umbrella organization of approximately 10 smaller Sunni parties to take part in the 2005 Iraqi Constitution drafting process

Islam in Mexico

Nowadays, most of the Mayan Muslims have left the Murabitun and established ties with the CCIM, now following the orthodox Sunni school of Islam.

Islamic television networks

Most Sunni and Sunni-Salafi Islamic television programs are hosted by imams who are not affiliated with Al-Azhar University.

Jarallah

Hussam ad-Din Jarallah (1884–1954), Sunni Muslim leader of the Palestinian people during the British Mandate of Palestine

Jawad Jabbar Sadkhan Al-Sahlani

Sadkhan told the Tribunal that this witness had agreed to testify and explain about the animosity between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in Afghanistan.

Jhojha

In terms of religion, they are fairly orthodox Sunni Muslims, and have customs similar to other neighbouring Muslim peasant castes, such as the Kamboh, Garha, and Muley Jat.

Jill Carroll

On March 30, 2006, Carroll entered the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party offices in western Baghdad around midday and handed office personnel a letter, thought to be from her kidnappers, asking for help, a party official later said.

Kababish tribe

The main religion of the Kababish is Sunni Muslim, but it is said that due to their nomadic lifestyle where water is short they are not strict followers of their religion's practices.

Kabarday

Some of the Kabardians living in North Ossetian Republic's Mozdok district and the southern part of the neighbouring Kursky district of Stavropol Krai are Orthodox Christians, whereas the other part of which are Sunni Muslims as well as Kabardians of Kabardino-Balkar Republic who belong mainly to Sunni Muslim faith, with a Habze minority.

Kanmailia

The Kanmailia are Sunni Muslims, but still incorporate many folk beliefs and traditions.

Khwarezmian

Khwarazmian dynasty, a Persianate Sunni Muslim dynasty of Turkic mamluk origin that ruled Greater Iran from about 1077 to 1231

Kitab al-Umm

The Kitāb al-Umm (Arabic: كـتـاب الأم) is a book of law that is used as an authoritative guide by the Shafi'i school of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) within the Sunni branch of Islam.

KNM

Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen, a Sunni Islam Salafi movement in Kerala State, India

Madrassas in Pakistan

Most madrassas in Pakistan cater to the dominant Sunni sect, having maximum Deobandi schools, with an estimated 4-10% madrassas serving the minority Shia population.

Mahmoudiyah, Iraq

Mahmudiya District has about 550,000 inhabitants, about 92% of them are Sunni Arabs and the rest are mostly Shias.

Momna

The Momna are now divided into three endogamous groups, the Shia Momna found in Mehsana District, Ahmedabad city, and the talukas of Dholka and Dhandhuka of Ahmadabad District, the Sunni Momna who re concentrated in fifty four villages of Wankaner and Morbi talukas of Rajkot District and the Wahabi Momna of Mehsana and Banaskantha Districts.

Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen

Sheikh Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Saalih ibn Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen at-Tamimi (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن صالح بن محمد بن سليمان بن عبد الرحمن العثيمين التميمي) (March 9, 1925 – January 10, 2001) was one of the most prominent Sunni Muslim Islamic scholars of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Muhammad's views on Christians

According to Sunni tradition, Abu Sufyan ibn Harb came forward and a discussion between them took place.

My Country, My Country

Poitras focuses primarily on Dr. Riyadh al-Adhadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six and Sunni political candidate.

Nakhoda Masjid

The mosque was built as an imitation of the mausoleum of Mughal Emperor Akbar at Sikandra, Agra by Kutchi Memon Jamat, a small community of Sunni Muslim community from Kutch.

Political aspects of Islam

Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man, the founder of the Sunni Hanafi school of fiqh, also wrote that the leader must come from the majority.

Qaderi

Muhammad Ilyas Qadri, Pakistani scholar of the Sunni and Sufi sect in Islam

Qutbism

Qutbism (also called Kotebism, Qutbiyya, or Qutbiyyah) is a faction within Sunni Islam, with roots to the thoughts of the late Sayyid Qutb, a Muslim, and figurehead of the Muslim Brotherhood (he was executed in 1966).

Search for Common Ground

Featuring six children, one from each of Armenian, Christian, Druze, Palestinian, Shiite, and Sunni backgrounds, the show calls attention to the interactions between the different ethnic groups and shows different means of nonviolent conflict resolution.

Sectarianism and minorities in the Syrian Civil War

Journalist Nir Rosen, writing for Al Jazeera, reported that members of the Alawite sect are afraid of Sunni hegemony, as they were oppressed by Sunnis during Ottoman times and in the early years of the 20th century, the Sunni merchant class held much of the country's wealth and dominated politics.

Sunni Bohra

Sunni Vohras/Bohras have large communities in the major cities of Gujarat such as Ahmedabad and Surat as well as in smaller towns such as Patan, Himmatnagar, Visnagar, Bhavnagar, Mahesana, Kadi, Kalol etc. and in Saurashtra, in Una, Veraval, Junagadh, Jetpur, Porbandar, Mangrol and Diu.

Sunni Vohras/Bohras have large communities in the major cities of Gujarat such as Ahmedabad and Surat as well as in smaller towns such as Patan, Himmatnagar, Visnagar, Bhavnagar, Mahesana, Kadi, Kalol, Anand, Mahemdavad, Umreth, Petlad, Vadodara, Borsad etc. and in Saurashtra, in Una, Veraval, Junagadh, Jetpur, Porbandar, Mangrol and Diu.

The Five Martyrs

The Five Martyrs of Shia Islam: five Shia Muslims executed by Sunni Muslims in different periods.

Tulfah family

The Hussein's are originally from Al-Awja, about 13 kilometers from Tikrit and are a member of the minority Sunni population.


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