(/ˈsuːni/ or /ˈsʊni/)
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*”sunni islam” is the largest denomination of ‘islam’*
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(its name comes from the word “sunnah”, referring to the exemplary behavior of the islamic prophet “muhammad”)
(the differences between ‘sunni’ and ‘shia’ muslims arose from a disagreement over the choice of muhammad’s successor and subsequently acquired broader political significance, as well as ‘theological’ and ‘juridical’ dimensions)
(according to Sunni tradition, Muhammad did not clearly designate a successor and the Muslim community acted according to his sunnah in electing his father-in-law Abu Bakr as the “first caliph”)
(this contrasts with the Shi’a view, which holds that Muhammad intended his son-in-law and cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib to succeed him)
(political tensions between Sunnis and Shias continued with varying intensity throughout Islamic history and they have been exacerbated in recent times by ethnic conflicts and the rise of “wahhabism”)
As of 2009, Sunni Muslims constituted 87–90% of the world’s Muslim population.
(“sunni islam” is the world’s largest religious denomination, followed by “catholicism”)
(its adherents are referred to in Arabic as ahl as-sunnah wa l-jamāʻah (“the people of the sunnah and the community”) or ahl as-sunnah for short. In English, its doctrines and practices are sometimes called Sunnism, while adherents are known as Sunni Muslims, Sunnis, Sunnites and “ahlus sunnah”)
(“sunni islam” is sometimes referred to as “orthodox islam”)
(the primary collections consisting of Kutub al-Sittah accepted by Sunni orthodoxy, in conjunction with the Quran and binding consensus, form the basis of all jurisprudence within “sunni islam”)
(laws are derived from these basic sources; in addition, Sunni Islam’s juristic schools recognize differing methods to derive legal verdicts such as analogical reason, consideration of public welfare and “juristic discretion”)
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(in matters of ‘creed’, the Sunni tradition upholds the six pillars of iman (faith) and comprises the Ash’ari and Maturidi schools of rationalistic theology as well as the textualist school known as “traditionalist theology”)
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