Sunni Islam

Sunnis Several years after Muhammads remainder, the various factions of the Islamic faith were formed. many of Muhammads relatives and companions were involved in the power struggle, and the war finally stabilized when Muawiyya, the governor ofSyria, took control of the kalifate. This marked the rise of theUmayyad dynastywhich ru guide Islam for quite some time. Although the Quran ordains that the division of Muslims into diverse sections is forbidden, three sects of Islam developed and emerged at the conclusion of theIslamic Civil War.These include the Sunni, Shiite, Ahmadiyya and Karijite. Of these quartet, the Sunni denomination is by far the largest, comprising of 90% of the world Muslim population, with Shia comprising of the guerrilla largest percentage. The literal translation of the word Sunni is habit or usual practice. My assumption is that the habit or practice refers to the actions of Muhammad. So anyone claiming to follow the Sunnah, which are the actions of Muhamma d and can stage that they believe the Hadith, which are narrations of the actions of Muhammad, can consider him or herself to be aSunniMuslim.People of Sunni orientation believe that Muhammad had never chosen a successor before his death and on that pointfore nobody can really properly succeed him or become the succeeding leader of the Caliphate other than his closest companions, or Shahaba. Sunnis belive that only the the premier(prenominal) four caliphs should be strikeed as the properly led caliphs. They include Abu Bakr, Umar al-Khattab, Uthman Affan, and Ali Talib. Actually why there has not been one widely known caliph since 1923 for the whole Islamic religion is due to the fact that Islam is divided into these three sections metioned earlier.Although Sunnis accept hadith narrated by the first four caliphs, they regard one collection of hadith to be the most authentic. This is called the Sahih al Bukhari. The literal translation of sahih is authentic. The Sunni branch of Islam has four legal schools of thought ormadhhab, through which Sunnis practice religious jurisprudence, or religious philosophy. there was only one madh-hab during the time of the rightly-guided Caliphs but after the beginning of the Umayyad dynasty, things changed. The Umayyad caliphs did not have the said(prenominal) religious authority as the front ones.After the Umayyad Dynasty, there was the Abbasid Dynasty. In comparison to the Umayyads, they were more supportive of Islamic law. The crystallization of four major Sunni madhhab of Islamic fiqh came about by the third century of Hijra. These four include the Hanafi, which was founded by Abu Hanifah and is the dominant school of Muslims in the United Kingdom and Germany, and also followed by Muslims in Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan. The Maliki school, founded by a Hanifas eldest bookman named Malik ibn Anas and is the dominant school of Muslims in Morocco, Algeria, Libiya, Nigeria, Sudan Bahrain, UAE and Kuwait .The Shafii school founded by a student of Malik named Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafii and is the dominant school of Muslims in Indonesia, Egypt, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Kenya, Somalia, Kenya Tanzania, Jordan, India, Syria and Lebanon. The Hanbali school founded by a student of al-Shafii named Ahmad bin Hanbal, and is the dominant school of Muslims in the Arabian Peninsula, to name the most predominant ones. The followers of these four schools follow the same basic beliefs but differ from one another in terms of practice and execution of rituals, and in interpretation of Sharia.So rather than again dividing themselves up into diametrical schools of law, Sunnis rather prefer to just combine and call themselves all Sunnis. Thereligious text of Islam, the Quranwas compiled by Muhammads closest companions and regarded as authentic my all Muslims. There are many aspects of daily life, however that are not mentioned in the Quran but they were observed and passed down through generatio ns. These oral account are called hadith. Sunnis regard only authentic collections of hadith to be authentic and those are compiled by six specific recorders named Bukhari, Muslim, Nasaii, Dawud, Tirmidhi, and Majah.The history of the SunniShia conflict originates in thesplitthat occurred whenMuhammaddied in the 632 which led to a dispute overwho should succeed him ascaliphof the Islamic community. This led to the battle of Siffin. For a long time, Sunni Islam was differentiated from Shii Islam by its adherence to theCaliphas the leader of the Muslims. However, Sunni and Shii Islam are the same in that they share important taught principles the wholeness ofGod, the belief in the revelations of Muhammad, and the belief in resurrection on the Day of Judgment.Even though the main split in Islamic practice is between Sunni and Shia Muslims, there are several disagreements within the Sunni community. Almost like how Americans have different views, there are some liberal and more secular movements in Sunni Islam that say that Sharia is interpreted on an individual basis, and that reject anyfatwaor religious command by religious Muslim authority figures. There are also several movements in Sunni Islam, which reject and sometimes persecute liberal Muslims for attempting to compromise certain Muslim traditions.