are iranian sunni or shia?
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Iran is unique in the Muslim world because its population is overwhelmingly more Shia than Sunni (Shia constitute 95% of the population) and because its constitution is theocratic republic based on rule by a Shia jurist.
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Bohra are Shias and Sunnis are Sunnis! Bohras believe that Ali the son-in-law and cousin of the prophet of Islam is the immediate successor of the prophet while Sunnis believe that Abubakr the father-in-law of the prophet is the first Caliph. ... On the other hand, Sunnis don't have any one definite Spiritual leader.
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Iraq is home to many religious cities important for both Shia and Sunni Muslims. Baghdad was a hub of Islamic learning and scholarship for centuries and served as the capital of the Abbassids. Baghdad also is home to two prominent Shia Imams in what is known as Kadhimiya, Iraq.
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Shia. While almost all of Egypt's Muslims are Sunni, there are a small number of Shia. (Estimates of their number range from 800,000 to "at most" three million.) The Syrian civil war has brought on an increase in anti-Shia rhetoric by Sunnis, harassment and arrest, and in at least one case bloodshed.
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Though Shia and Sunni are different Muslim sects, the Shias are allowed to perform prayers at Sunni mosques and vice versa. ... On the other hand Sunnis believe in Shahadah, Salah, Zakat, Sawm and Hajj. The division between Sunnis and Shias happened soon after the death of Muhammad.
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Shia Muslims are a numerical majority in Iraq and Bahrain. Nearly half of the Muslim population in Lebanon and Yemen are Shia.
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Similarities between the Sunnis and Shias They both believe that there is only one all-powerful God who created the world and all life in it. They also believe in a devil, angels, and demons. Shia and Sunni believe that Islam began in 610 CE when Muhammad, the last prophet, began receiving messages from God.
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The divide between Sunnis and Shia is the largest and oldest in the history of Islam. Members of the two sects have co-existed for centuries and share many fundamental beliefs and practices.
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Differing from Sunni classical Islamic theories are those of Shia Muslims, who hold that the Twelve Imams interpret the sunnah, and Sufi who hold that Muhammad transmitted the values of Sunnah "through a series of Sufi teachers."
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Unlike Iran's Sunni-majority neighbors with sizable Shiite minorities – such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates – about 99 percent of Morocco's population are Sunni Muslims and there is only a very small community of Shiite converts in the country.
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Shiites believe the Prophet Mohammed should have been succeeded by his son-in-law, Imam Ali, and leadership of the Muslim world should pass through the prophet's descendants. Sunnis don't believe the leadership of the Muslim world should necessarily pass through hereditary succession.
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Sunni and Salafi are two sects of Islam and Salafi are also known as ahle hadith. ... The Salafi rely solely upon the Quran and the hadith or Sunah of the prophet narrated by his companions. The Sunnis believe in the four imams and their school of thought whereas ahle hadith do not believe in taqleed or associationism.
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Sunni means 'one who follows the Sunnah' (what the Prophet said, did, agreed to or condemned). Shi'a is a contraction of the phrase 'Shiat Ali', meaning 'partisans of Ali'.
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Pashtun are generally Hanafi Sunni Muslims, but some are Shia. The two major Shia communities in Afghanistan are the Ithna Ashariya or Twelvers, also called Imami, and the Ismaili, sometimes called the Seveners.
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The difference between Sunni and Ismaili is that Sunni Muslims believe in following the ways and verbal sayings of the last Prophet whereas Ismaili Muslims is a sect of Shia which differs from Sunni Islam. ... Sunni Muslims believe in a secular political leadership whereas the Ismailis believe in a religious ruler.
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The Shiites and Sunnis are ethnically Arabs (that is, they speak Arabic and share a common culture). Kurds are not Arabs; they have their own culture and language. Most Kurds are Sunni Muslims. ... Supporters of Ali became Shiites or "followers of Ali." Some 90 percent of the world's Muslims today are Sunnis.
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According to a 2009 U.S. State Department release, the population of Tajikistan is 98% Muslim, (approximately 85% Sunni and 5% Shia). In Afghanistan, the great number of Tajiks adhere to Sunni Islam. The smaller number of Tajiks who may follow Twelver Shia Islam are locally called Farsiwan.