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There are Sunni fatwas that were considered Sunni obligation to the "insult offered to the Sunni faith by the Shia religious literature." [30] This is demonstrated in the case of some Sunni fatwas issued in Pakistan, which were considered as defensive materials created for the purpose of defending the faith from the Shia. [30]
Under Shaltut, Sunni-Shia ecumenical activities would reach their zenith. [1] The fatwa is the fruit of a decade-long collaborative effort between a group of Sunni and Shia scholars at the Dar al-Taqreeb al-Madhahib al-Islamiyyah ("center for bringing together the various Islamic schools of thought") theological center at Al-Azhar University in ...
Twelver Shias following numerous other maraji that maybe disagree with the ruling, are not obliged to respect it and may even act against it. [9] Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat , Ali al-Sistani [ citation needed ] , Naser Makarem Shirazi , Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili , Mousa Shubairi Zanjani have similar opinion to Khamenei in this issue.
On July 6, 1959, Egypt's Sheikh Shaltout issued the al-Azhar Shia fatwa opining that: "The Jafari fiqh of the Shi'a is a school of thought that is religiously correct to follow in worship as are other Sunni schools of thought." [citation needed] 1974 fatwa on the Ahmadiyyah community
Twelver Shias sometimes consider Zaydism to be a "fifth school" of Sunni Islam. [4] Zaydis regard rationalism as more important than Quranic literalism and historically were quite tolerant towards Sunni Shafi'ism, a religion of about half of the Yemenis. [5] Most of the world's Zaydis are located in northern Yemen and Najran, Saudi Arabia.
Wahabbism is intensely opposed by rival Hui sects in China, by the Hanafi Sunni Gedimu and Sufi Khafiya and Jahriyya. The opposition is so much so that even the Yihewani Chinese sect, which is fundamentalist and was founded by Ma Wanfu , who was originally inspired by the Wahhabis, reacted with hostility to Ma Debao and Ma Zhengqing, who ...
Distribution of Sunni, Shia and Ibadi branches. Sunni Muslims are the vast majority of Muslims in most Muslim communities in Central Asia (including China), Europe (including Russia and the Balkans), South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, the Arab World, Turkey and among Muslims in the United States.
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