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23 wrz 2004 · The Umayyads consolidated Islamic rule over what we know today as the traditional center of the Islamic world as seen in the map above: North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.
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8 sie 2014 · The most important are Iraq's Shia Arabs (Shiiism is a major branch of Islam), who are the country's majority and live mostly in the south. In the north and west are Sunni Arabs.
18 cze 2014 · By Michael Lipka. The ongoing and intensifying conflict in Iraq has fallen – at least in part – along sectarian lines, with the Sunni Muslim militant group ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) advancing against the Shia Muslim-led Iraqi government and Shia militias.
Sunni Islam in Iraq. A 2003 CIA Factbook map which shows the area mostly inhabited by Sunni Muslim Arabs in light orange. Sunni Islam in Iraq (Arabic: الإسلام السني في العراق) is the second-largest sect of Islam in Iraq after Shia Islam. The majority of Iraqi Sunni Muslims are Arabs.
16 wrz 2009 · The split between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims is one of the most important schisms in modern religion — yet in the West, at least, it’s one of the least understood.
The Sunni political landscape in the post-2003 period was shaped by several leading Sunni figures who returned to Iraq after many years in exile as oppositional forces to Saddam Hussein's regime. To a large extent, Sunni participation under the new Shi‘i-led regime reflected a personalist system.
Iraq's Muslims follow two distinct traditions, Shia and Sunni Islam. According to the CIA World Factbook, Iraq is approximately 95% to 98% Muslim, with approximately 55% Shia and 40% Sunni. [5] According to a 2011 survey by Pew Research, 51% of the Muslims identify as Shia and 42% as Sunni. [6]
