Sunni Islam

Denomination·Founded 632 CE·est. ~1.7 billion worldwide

Islam → Sunni Islam

Branch

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The path of the community's consensus.

The largest branch of Islam — roughly nine in ten Muslims. Authority after the Prophet passed to the community and its consensus; the sunna, systematized in four schools of law, patterns the whole of life.

The founding

No single founder — Sunni Islam accreted rather than began.

What it holds

The divine. One God.

Death and after. Judgment; garden or fire.

The line

descent is public here — where it came from, what left it
Islam — 610 CE Sunni Islam — 632 CE
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