Sunni
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...the adherents to the four extant schools of religious law ( fiqh ), the Hanafi, Maliki, Shafii, and Hanbali schools (see sharia ). With no centralized clerical institution, Sunni Islam should be understood as an umbrella identity, grouping close to...