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| | Muslim sects - All About Turkey |
 | | Sunni Islam revere Ali, but does not hold him up the only true continuation of the tradition from Muhammad, and has no emphasis on him bringing on a divine light from the Prophet. | | | Sunni and Shi'i Islam share only three core doctrines, oneness of God, the belief in the revelations of Muhammad, and the belief in resurrection on the Day of Judgment. | | | Sunni Islam claims to be the continuation of the Islam as it was defined through the revelations given to Muhammad and his life, a claim which is substantiated through the fact that Shi'i Islam for a number of decades had very little following and had no real, formal organization. |
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http://www.allaboutturkey.com/siisunni.htm
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| | Islam Glossary |
| | Allah is the one, single god of Islam; he is considered to be the same god as that worshipped by the Jews and the Christians (although Moslems believe the Christian Trinity misrepresents his nature). | | | Since Islam considers Allah to be the god of the Jews and the Christians (see also People of the Book), it views the important figures of those two religions as prophets of Allah. | | | According to Islam, Allah is the god of the Jews and the Christians--indeed, many Jewish and Christian figures are considered Islamic prophets, such as Abraham, David, and Jesus--but Mohammed is the final prophet, who managed to bring to humanity the complete and true understanding of Allah. |
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| | Denominations and Sects of Islam - ReligionFacts |
| | Sunnis base their religion on the Quran and the Sunnah as understood by the majoroty of the community under the structure of four schools of thought. | | | Ahmad claimed to be the appearance of the promised Messiah (or, according to some sources, the manifestation of the Prophet Muhammad as well as an incarnation of Jesus and the Hindu god Krishna). | | | Sunnis have their historical roots in the majority group who followed Abu Bakr, an effective leader, as Muhammad's successor instead of the Prophet's cousin and son-in-law Ali. |
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| | RELS14 Glossary |
| | In Islam, tilawa is ritual recitation of the Quran. | | | In Islam, wahy refers to "revelation" of the Quran to Muhammad by a kind of verbal/mental process of inspiration and communication. | | | Specifically, in Islam taziya refers to a Shiite passion play commemorating the tragic death of the third Imam, Husayn (son of `Ali), at Karbala, in 680 CE. |
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| | Shiia Islam |
| | The Sunni-Shia division of Islam originated as a succession dispute shortly after the death of the prophet Muhammad in 632 A.D. Shia believe that the proper successor of Muhammad was Ali. | | | In contrast to Sunni Muslims, who view the caliph only as a temporal leader and who lack a hereditary view of Muslim leadership, Shia Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad designated Ali to be his successor as Imam, exercising both spiritual and temporal leadership. | | | Because of their belief that the leader of the Muslim community must be a blood relative of the prophet, disputes arose when two sons of an Imam (the title given to the Shia leader) both claimed to be the rightful successor. |
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| | The world's top sunni islam websites |
| | Sunnis base their religion on the Quran and the Sunnah, which is recorded in the books of Hadith. | | | Sunni Islam (س& denomination of Islam. | | | In Islam, political disagreements have usually manifested themselves as religious disagreements; the earliest example of this is that 30 years after Muhammed's death, the Islamic community plunged into a civil war that gave rise to three sects. |
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| | Islam distorted thebulletin.org |
| | Sunni Brelvis, rivals of the Deobandis, are rooted in the mystic traditions of the land. | | | Either preaching the version of Islam they were versed in or fighting the "infidels" (even if those infidels are Muslims of another type) is the only vocation they know. | | | But even Sipahe Sahaba is not the most fanatic of the Sunni groups. |
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| | Sunnites, Sunni, Ahl-i Sunnah |
| | Sunni Islam was defined during the early Abbasid period (beginning in AD 750), and it included the followers of four legal schools (the Malikis, Hanafis, Shafi'is, and Hanbalis). | | | The Sunni tradition is known in Arabic as the Ahl-i Sunnah (the People of Sunnah), a term which according to the earliest classical sources emerged in the ninth century. | | | Sunnites are, by this definition, Muslims who strictly follow the sunna (practices) of the Prophet Muhammad and preserve the unity and integrity of the community. |
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| | Sunni Islam |
| | Iraqi Sunnis tend to regard themselves as descendants of and heirs to the golden age of Arab Islamic civilization, much of which took place under the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad from the 8th to 13th centuries. | | | Iraq's Sunni Arabs inhabit the valleys of the Euphrates above Baghdad, and of the Tigris between Baghdad and Mosul. | | | Sunnis subscribe to a broad spectrum of ideologies and affiliations, many of which have little to do with religion. |
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| | Ahadun Ahad Forums -> Sunni Islam |
| | Sunni Islam, or Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama`a, understands the Islamic religion as it has been passed down in an unbroken chain of transmission from teacher to student from the time of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) until today. | | | The Ash`ari school is known by the Ta`wil of the attributes of Allah subhanahu wa-ta`ala and it is the school of the Khalaf. | | | Orthodoxy in Islam is defined as the doctrine of Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jama`ah, the People of the Sunna and the Community. |
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| | Islam and Islamic Studies Resources |
| | Muslims believe both that islam is the quintessence of the spiritual impulse present in the earliest humans and that, as "Islam," it is the name of the religious form revealed by God to Muhammad beginning in the year 610 CE. | | | Sunni Islam: Faith and Theology (Iman and Kalam) | | | This Webby nominated Islam and Islamic Studies website also touches on the areas of Arabic and Religion (focusing on Western religions). |
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| | Shiite page |
| | Not found in Sunni Islam, the ideas of martyrdom and survival through persecution have become a distinct part of Shiite religion, and are celebrated and remembered during the lunar months of Muharram and Safar. | | | Nasr's concern to maintain the unity of Islam is evident as he attempts to reconcile this with the differences within Islam, yet his statements lead one to wonder whether he believes contradictions are divinely ordained. | | | Sunnis do not accept this doctrine, and consequently do not see the Imams as infallible, sinless, or as a source of absolute religious authority. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Sunni (Islam) - Encyclopedia |
| | Sunni Islam is the heir to the early central Islamic state, in its ackowledgement of the legitimacy of the order of succession of the first four caliphs (see caliphate), in contrast to the Shiite rejection of the first three as usurpers. | | | In actual practice, however, religious scholars (ulama), together with mystic shaykhs, pious persons, and popular saints (awliya), are often recognized as enjoying a religious authority of varying degrees. | | | Sunna,=tradition], from ahl al-sunnah wa-l-jamaa [Arab.,=the people of the custom of the Prophet and community], the largest division of Islam. |
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| | PBS Online: Beyond the Veil - Shi'a-Sunni Schism |
| | But though Shi'ite Islam is Iran's state religion and the faith of a great majority of Iranian citizens, there are in Iran people who hold different beliefs. | | | Just 23 years after his death, a major dispute over the leadership of Islam erupted between the followers of Muhammad's son-in-law, Ali, and Uthman, a rich nobleman who was a member of the powerful Umayyad family. | | | The Islam of the Islamic Republic's government, and of the majority of Iranian citizens, is known as Shi'a, often referred to in English as "Shiite Islam." |
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| | Divisions within Islam |
| | Sunni Muslims These are followers of the Hanifa, Shafi, Hanibal and Malik schools. | | | Because of Islam's great growth geographically in the first two centuries of its inception, there needed to be a larger set of Islamic laws capable of handling the different needs of Muslims throughout the Empire. | | | The first three are found in Sunni Islam, albeit with some differences of emphasis; the Imamate, however, is the essence of Shi'ism, and the last, justice, is an inheritance from the Mu'tazilites, or rationalists, whose system is in many ways perpetuated in Shi'ite theology..." |
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| | Mark LeVine Islam FAQ, Sunni, Shi'a -- Beliefnet.com |
| | Shiism as a distinct sect within Islam began when followers, or "partisans" (Shi'at in Arabic) of the Prophet's cousin and son-in-law, Ali, believed that he was wrongfully passed over as Caliph in favor of Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman, the first three leaders after Muhammad. | | | Noted Islam scholar Akbar Ahmed provides a Muslim perspective on the growing violence between Sunnis and Shi'as. | | | Increasing the importance of this location is the belief among Shiites that the twelfth, or final imam, was last seen at the shrine before he disappeared. |
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| | Branches of Islam, Sunni, Shiite, Sufi, Baha'ism, U.S.A. Black Muslims |
| | The Wahhabis: The Fanatical Reformists of Modern Islam | | | For them, it is a polytheism to visit the graves of the saints, and they are against observance of the feast of the Birth of the Prophet... | | | The followers of Abu, called "Sunni" because they accept the "sunnas", the oral traditions and interpretations of the Koran after Muhammad's death, called the "sunnas", and later the "Hadiths". |
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| | Islamic schools of thought (madhabs). |
| | Traditionists existed in all great centres of Islam where they formed groups in opposition to, but nevertheless in contact with, the local schools of law, and the polemics between them and the ancient schools occupied most of the second century. | | | Since about 700/1300 four of them only have survived in orthodox Islam, the Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali schools; they are regarded and regard one another, as alternative and equally valid interpretations of the religious laws of Islam. | | | I would say it is "a method", a method of interpretation of religious material in the three major areas: belief, religious practice and law. |
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| | Faith, Practice, and Law in Sunni and Shi'i Islam |
| | Angels in Islam is a particularly useful compilation of excerpts from Professor Sachiko Murata's chapter "Angels" in the volume Islamic Spirituality, edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. | | | His partisans were those who believed that 'Ali was the rightful successor of the Prophet and that 'Ali had been chosen by the Prophet to succeed him in his role as the political and spiritual leader of the Muslims. | | | This was in contrast to the belief of the Sunnis, who did not believe the Prophet had selected 'Ali to serve in that role. |
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| | Splitting Islam |
| | The Sunni population might be reduced to a rump territory in central and western Iraq, along with sections of Baghdad and Mosul. | | | Sunnis also make up the majority population in most Muslim states, but Shi& form a concentrated mass in a crucial expanse of the Muslim world, stretching from Lebanon through the Persian Gulf to Iran and even beyond. | | | When the last Islamic caliphate, that of the Ottoman sultan, was abolished along with the Ottoman Empire in 1922, the Muslim world broke into a plethora of separate and competing states. |
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| | sunniforum.com - Differences Between Sunni Islam and Shi'a Islam |
| | This led to a split politically and then religiously - the concept of Imamate, where the people that the shia considered to be the "rightful" leaders were considered to be a perfect source of divine law and free from error (masum). | | | 3rd it is forbided in islam to say kufr who offer who believe in Kalem e Shahada, (There is no God but ALLAH and MUHAMAD is the last prophet). | | | It seems in Iraq and Iran that Shi'a Islam is practiced more and in Afghanistan Sunni Islam if practiced. |
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| | Asia Times - Part 2: Slowly building bridges |
| | Yet, many Sunnis complain that Shi'ites seem to take the fundamentals of Islam very much for granted, mainly focusing on glorification of Ali and martyrdom of Hussein and his family members. | | | While the basic scripture, the Holy Koran, is the same in the case of both sects, the Shi'ites prefer to rely on some different sayings of the Prophet and different narrators. | | | Muslims must know this, and ought to refrain from unjust prejudice to any particular school of thought, since the religion of Allah and His Divine Law (Sharia) was never restricted to a particular school of thought. |
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| | Who are the Ahl al-Sunnah? |
| | Abdal Hakim Murad (the translator of the above book) said in the footnote to the fiftieth branch of faith: 'Orthodoxy in Islam is defined as the doctrine of ahl al-sunna wa'l jama'a, the People of the Sunna and the Community. | | | The ulama of Islam who came in the third and fourth centuries are called Khalaf as-sadiqin. | | | " Their creed is the religion of Islam which was sent to the world by Allah through the Prophet (Peace be upon him). |
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| | Qatar Sunni Islam - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ... |
| | The last of the four major Sunni legal schools, that of Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hanbal (780-855), was centered in Baghdad. | | | The Muslim year has two religious festivals: Id al Adha, a sacrificial festival held on the tenth day of Dhu al Hijjah, the twelfth, or pilgrimage, month; and Id al Fitr, the festival of breaking the fast, which celebrates the end of Ramadan on the first day of Shawwal, the tenth month. | | | In principle, a Sunni approaches God directly: there is no clerical hierarchy. |
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| | Site Index -- The Canadian Society of Muslims |
| | Islam - the Religion of Love (also discusses Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity) | | | Comparisons between Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam (in pdf) | | | Sufism -- The Spiritual Culture of Islam (in pdf) |
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| | Adherents.com: Largest Religious Bodies |
| | The Islamic University of Cairo, one of the leading academic voices in the world of Islam, has stated that Shiites form a "fifth school" of Islam and are part of the same communion. | | | Third would be India, followed by Sunni Islam, the United States, and the Eastern Orthodox Church. | | | The largest religious bodies based in the United States (in terms of worldwide membership) are the Assemblies of God, Southern Baptist Convention, United Methodist Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Seventh-day Adventists. |
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| | Radical Sunni Islam Emerging In Iraq |
| | A young Sunni cleric in Tarmiyah, near Baghdad, calls holy war "an obligation of all Muslims". | | | In Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, Sheikh Hashem Khshali calls the United States "an enemy of all Muslims" but says he has not called for jihad. | | | "Army of Mohammed," is written near the Abu Hanifa mosque in Baghdad's Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah, long considered a haven of Saddam supporters. |
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| | Sunni Islam - MSN Encarta |
| | Sunni Islam, one of the two main branches of Islam. | | | Sunni Muslims constitute the vast majority in the world Islamic community... | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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| | CNN.com Specials |
| | Sunni Islam draws its name from its identification with the importance of the Sunnah, which literally means "the path." The Sunnah is the example set by the life of the prophet Mohammed. | | | The written document based on the teachings and practices of Mohammed, known as the Hadith, serves as a supplement to the Koran. | | | Sunnis constitute the vast majority of the world's Muslims. |
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| | Terrence Cook |
| | Sunnah is Arabic for "traditions," The orthodoxy, the Islam of the large majority, nearly 9 in 10 Muslims. | | | Southern Arabs had wanted succession to Ali, Mohammed's son-in-law and cousin, hence a blood tie in the succes sion. | | | Shi'a is Arabic for "followers." This is the minority of about 1 in 10 in Islam, likened by one Palestinian Sunni to Christian Protestantism. |
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| | IslamiCity Forum: Sunni Shiite Islam |
| | Finally, there are people like me who are annoyed by all these groups and believe merely in the Qur'an and the authentic tradition emanating from the Messenger of Allah to our day. | | | By the way, you sound like a Muslim and if so, you already know the things that I have tried to explain here. | | | Sufis are mostly Sunni Muslims but many Muslims do not agree with some of their doctrines which are mostly in secondary issues not related to the main principles of Islam. |
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| | Ask Imam Online Islam Fatwa Questions and Answers |
| | In islam is it permisible to male or female to colour die the hair? | | | Ask Imam Online Islam Fatwa Questions and Answers | | | If not then what shall do if wife request to die his husband hair white to black? |
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| | Focus on Social Issues - What is Sunni Islam? |
| | 075unni Islam is the dominant form of Islam. | | | Sunni Muslims constitute roughly 85 percent of all Muslims. | | | Unless otherwise indicated, the FAQs on this site pertain to Sunni practices and beliefs. |
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