READER ADS: Tourist guide requires work | PUT YOUR AD HERE - FREE Click to open Encyclopaedia of the Orient on its front page Sunni Arabic: sunniyy Main group in Islam, making up 90% of the religion's adherents. Has been dominating almost continuously since 661, when the Shi'is departed from the main fold (the Kharijis left in 658). Sunni Islam claims to be the continuation of the Islam as it ...

The academic study of the beliefs, laws, andpractices of Sunni and Shi'i Islam.

Russia: Dagestan's Religious Tensions- Analysis By Bruce Pannier Prague, 19 May 1997 (RFE/RL) -- In the Dagestani village of Chabani-Makhi last week, a violent confrontation broke out between rival Muslim groups. Members of the Wahhabi group clashed with those of local Tariqat Sufi orders. Two people were reported killed and three hospitalized in rioting, and 18 Wahhabis were briefly taken ...