Both denominations accept the Koran, or Qur'an, the Muslim holy book, as the indisputable will of Allah and His plan for humanity. Both Sunnis and Shias believe that the body of Koranic laws (called sharia) supersedes worldly laws. 4Five Core Acts ... Sunni and Shia Muslims all embrace...
Shiite and Sunni | Split, Conflict & Explanation 4:13 7:37 Next Lesson Off-Shoots of Islam: The Sufi and Bahai Islamic Fundamentalism and World Politics: Wahhabi Movement, Muslim Brotherhood & Jihad 7:29 Ch 7. World Religion: Judaism Ch 8. World Religion: Christianity Ch 9. Studying...
(Muslim, Arabic, book 44, 316) This hadith is interestingly used by some to face the ghulat/extremist of the shia over their slenders. Though they are right and shia maraji/ayatollahs and we mainstream shiites are also right to call them not to slender the companions. Here's another ...
Sunnis vs. Shiites vs. Kurds There are three ethnicity-based governments in Iraq that absolutely hate each other and do not get along at all. Many factors play into the instabilities of the governments ran by the Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds. The roles of the Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurd...
Although the title was used by some Muslim rulers until it was eliminated in 1924 by Turkey’s first President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. These declines of the caliphate become an instigator for some Sunni activists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They held that the leaders had destabilized...
The total population of the country is 34.32 million (2011 ), a Muslim accounted for about 95 per cent of the population of Shiite Muslims, which accounted for 54.5 % and 40.5 % of Sunni Muslims. Arabs accounted for approximately 73% of the total population, Kurds about 21 per cent. ...