Sunni

Examples of Sunni in the following topics:

• Muhammad's Successors

  • After Muhammad's death in 632 CE, there were conflicts among his followers as to who would become his successor, which created a split in Islam between the Sunni and Shi'a sects.
  • Ali would eventually become the fourth Sunni caliph.
  • Sunni Muslims believe and confirm that Abu Bakr was chosen by the community and that this was the proper procedure.
  • Sunnis further argue that a caliph should ideally be chosen by election or community consensus.
  • The followers of all four Rashidun caliphs (Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali) became the majority Sunni sect.

• Sect

  • Within Islam, there has been conflict at various periods between Sunnis and Shias.
  • Shi'ites consider Sunnis to be damned, due to their refusal to accept the first Caliph as Ali and accept all following descendants of him as infallible and divinely guided.
  • Many Sunni religious leaders, including those inspired by Wahhabism and other ideologies have declared Shias to be heretics and apostates.

• Introduction to Inflection

  • For example, if you’re trying to compare how sunny today’s weather is to yesterday’s weather, you would change the adjective “sunny” to “sunnier”: “Today is sunnier than yesterday.”

• Islam

  • Approximately half (50%) of the religious affiliations of Muslims is Sunni, 16% Shia, 22% non-affiliated and, 16% other/non-response.
  • Muslims of Arab decent are mostly Sunni (56%) with minorities who are Shi'a (19%).
  • Bangladeshis (90%), Pakistanis (72%), and Indians (82%) are mainly Sunni, while Iranians are mainly Shi'a (91%).
  • Of African-American Muslims, 48% are Sunni, 34% are unaffiliated (mostly part of the Community of W.

• Photochemical Smog

  • Smog is a particular health danger in some of the world's sunniest and most populated cities, such as Los Angeles; Los Angeles is typically sunny, and the sun reacts with the chemicals produced by cars and other industrial processes.
  • Smog can also affect areas of the country that are sunny less frequently, such as New York City.

• Logical Fallacies

  • Argument: Person A: Sunny days are good Person B: If all days were sunny, we'd never have rain, and without rain, we'd have famine and death.
  • Problem: B has misrepresented A's claim by falsely suggesting that A claimed that only sunny days are good, and then B refuted the misrepresented version of the claim, rather than refuting A's original assertion.

• The Abbasid Empire

  • However, once in power, the Abbasids embraced Sunni Islam and disavowed any support for Shi'a beliefs.
  • By 1000 CE, they had become the chief political and ideological challenge to Abbasid Sunni Islam.
  • Mahmud of Ghazni took the title of "sultan," instead of "emir," signifying the Ghaznavid Empire's independence from caliphal authority, despite Mahmud's ostentatious displays of Sunni orthodoxy and ritual submission to the caliph.

• Religious Denominations

  • The term also describes the four branches of Judaism (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist), and describes the two main branches of Islam (Sunni and Shia).

• Characteristics of Reptiles

  • Reptiles have behavioral adaptations to help regulate body temperature, such as basking in sunny places to warm up and finding shady spots or going underground to cool down.

• Marketing exchanges and partnerships

  • Suppose you are traveling to visit relatives in a nearby town on a warm and sunny Saturday morning.