Sunni Islam

Instead, they are much more tuned to the leading voices of Sunni Islam, such as Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, who intensifies his calls for them to bring down their government.

Dr. Josef Olmert: How Likely Is an Iranian-Hezbollah Intervention in Syria? Dr. Josef Olmert 2011

Around the same time, Pakistan was sucked into a shadowy proxy war for influence between two rival strains of radical Islam: the messianic Shia variety propagated by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini, and Wahhabism, an austere back-to-basics form of Sunni Islam championed by Saudi Arabia.

The Plight of Pakistan's Shia Sadanand Dhume 2011

The Salafi movement espouses an ultraconservative form of Sunni Islam with roots in Saudi Arabia that can be found throughout the region.

Syrian Forces Fire on Demonstrators Say Activists 2011

Instead, they are much more tuned to the leading voices of Sunni Islam, such as Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, who intensifies his calls for them to bring down their government.

Dr. Josef Olmert: How Likely Is an Iranian-Hezbollah Intervention in Syria? Dr. Josef Olmert 2011

The Salafi movement espouses an ultraconservative form of Sunni Islam with roots in Saudi Arabia that can be found throughout the region.

Syrian Forces Fire on Demonstrators Say Activists 2011

More prestigious still, his grandfather was the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Egypt's and Sunni Islam's most revered university.

Sizing Up bin Laden's Successor Fouad Ajami 2011

Sunni Islam, with its emphasis on the mosque and Sharia, proved less successful in attracting converts than Sufism—the mystical, inward-focused, ascetic branch of Islam—which was more easily blended with Chechen customary law.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Associated Press Christians surrounded a vehicle carrying, Ahmed el-Tayeb the grand sheik of Cairo's Al-Azhar, an institute of Sunni Islam, after he offered his condolences to Pope Shenouda III, the head of the Coptic church, in Cairo.

Bomb Kills 21 at Egypt Church 2011

The reader can be assured of at least one visit to a great landed estate worked by serfs, a potted history of the country's rogue nuclear program, well-meaning observations on the dismal status of women, and learned asides about the difference between the Barelvi and Deobandi sects of Sunni Islam.

Love Letter to Rawalpindi Sadanand Dhume 2011

Sunni Islam, with its emphasis on the mosque and Sharia, proved less successful in attracting converts than Sufism—the mystical, inward-focused, ascetic branch of Islam—which was more easily blended with Chechen customary law.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011