Sunni Islam

Islam by country,the countries with more than 5% Muslims in the total population are shown. Sunnites are shown in shades of green, Shiites in shades of red. Shiites are underrepresentes, because they do not always show up in statistics. The same applies to other Islamic movements,like Ahmaddyyia, for example in Pakistan.

Sunni Muslim women from countries like Saudi Arabia wear this kind of dress, called an abaya

Sunni Islam (Arabic: أهل السنة) is the largest denomination in Islam. They are the branch of Islam that came through the Rashidun Empire, which started with Hazrat Abu Bakr (R) the first caliph who had been chosen by people and ended by Ali ibn Abi Talib. Sunni beliefs are based on the Quran and the Kutub al-Sittah and Sunnis make up around 75% of all Muslims.

Adherents of Sunni Islam are Sunnis. They are also referred to as Ahle Hadith or Ahle Sunna. The word Sunni comes from the word sunna (Arabic : سنة ), which means the tradition of the prophet of Islam, Muhammad. Sunnis are also called Ahlu s-Sunna wa-l-Jama'ah (Arabic: أهل السنة والجماعة) (people of tradition and congregation), meaning that the Sunnis are united.