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[4] [5] [6] The denominations are as follows: 65% primarily of the Shafi'i and other orders of Sunni Islam. 33% of the Zaidi order of Shia Islam, 2% of the Ja'fari and Tayyibi Ismaili orders of Shia Islam. Yemen is home to the Sulaymani Bohra community, a subdivision of Tayyibi Mustali Ismailism. [7] The Sunnis are predominantly in the south ...
Shia Islam in Yemen is practiced by a substantial minority of the population, [1] with the vast majority of Shia Muslims in Yemen being Zaydi, while a minority are Twelver and Isma'ili. [2] Sunni Muslims make up 65% percent of Yemen, while 35% of the country are Shia Muslims. These Shia Muslims are predominantly concentrated in the northwestern ...
Yemen is an Islamic country.Nearly all Yemenis are Muslims, The U.S. government estimates that more than 99 percent of the population is Muslim [2] with approximately 60-65% belonging to Sunni Islam (mostly Shafi'i) and 35-40% belonging to Shia Islam (mostly Zaydi).
Sizable Zaydi and Isma'ili communities also live in Najran along the border with Yemen. Saudi Arabia officially follows Wahhabism, a strict, recently established sect of Sunni Islam. There is little freedom of religion between the different sects even whilst all of the population are Muslims. Smaller Shia groups are present in Egypt and Jordan.
Thereafter, Yemen was ruled as part of Arab-Islamic caliphates, and became a province in the Islamic empire. Regimes affiliated to the Egyptian Fatimid caliphs occupied much of northern and southern Yemen throughout the 11th century, including the Sulayhids and Zurayids , but the country was rarely unified for any long period of time.
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a majority Muslim country with 96% of the population following Sunni Islam while a small minority follow Shiite branches. There are also about 20,000 to 32,000 Druze living mostly in the north of Jordan, even though most Druze no longer consider themselves Muslim.
Sunni Islam is the dominant religion in Jordan.Muslims make up about 97.2% of the country's population. [1] [2] A few of them are Shiites.Many Shia in Jordan are refugees from Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq.
Yemeni diaspora refers to Yemeni migrants and their descendants who, whether by choice or coercion, emigrated from Yemen and now reside in other countries. There are 7 million Yemenis living outside Yemen, including 2 million in Saudi Arabia. [2] [3] In the United Kingdom there are between 70,000 and 80,000 Yemenis.