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Islam is the dominant religion in Egypt, with approximately 90% of Egyptians identifying as Muslims. [1] The majority of Egyptian Muslims are adherents of Sunni Islam, [2] while a small minority adhere to Shia Islam. [3] Since 1980, Islam has served as Egypt's state religion. [4]
Islam has been the state religion in Egypt since the amendment of the second article of the Egyptian constitution in the year 1980, before which Egypt was recognized as a secular country. The vast majority of Egyptian Muslims are Sunni, with a small Mu'tazila, Shia Twelvers and the Shia Ismaili communities making up the remainder. [66]
The Abbasite Caliph Al-Ma'mūn (reigned 813–33) criticized in his Mihna edict a group of people, who related themselves to the sunnah (nasabū anfusa-hum ilā s-sunna) and claimed, they are the "people of truth, religion and community" (ahl al-ḥaqq wa-d-dīn wa-l-jamāʿah). [25] Sunna and jamāʿah are already connected here. As a pair ...
The four Sunni Imams founded the four madhhab (schools of thought) recognized in Sunni Islam. While they agree on the foundational principles of fiqh according to the Sunni narrative, their interpretations of certain legal and practical matters differ, which led to the development of the four distinct madhhab.
Egyptian Sunni Muslims (4 C, 52 P) M. Sunni mosques in Egypt (3 P) Muslim Brotherhood (6 C, 51 P, 9 F) Pages in category "Sunni Islam in Egypt"
Egyptian former Sunni Muslims (12 P) A. Egyptian al-Qaeda members (1 C, 32 P) B. Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood members (3 C, 30 P) S. Egyptian Salafis (1 C, 19 P)
This is a list of notable Muslim theologians. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Rather, they are held by the people of innovation and the extremists who have claimed for themselves the title of Sufi while in reality they are not.'" In his book entitled Tashyid, Al-Suyuti demonstrates a narrative chains of transmission by providing evidence that Hasan al-Basri did in indeed receive narrations directly from Ali ibn Abi Talib .