In the 1970s, Ali converted to Sunni Islam, the largest Muslim denomination worldwide.

I would argue it is a very profound enemy to Sunni Islam itself.

Most follow Sunni Islam and speak their own distinct languages.

It propagates a hard-line curriculum based on the radical Deobandi strain of Sunni Islam.

Islamic State subscribes to a puritanical school of Sunni Islam that considers Shi'ites as heretics.

Nor was it an accident that Teddy was attracted to Sunni Islam and to Hasidim.

Malaysia, which has the world's largest Islamic bond market, follows the Shafi school of Sunni Islam.

Salafism is an ultra-conservative brand of Sunni Islam.

And while you're at it, ask him to explain the difference between Sunni Islam and Shia Islam?

Islamic State espouses a fiercely purist school of Sunni Islam, deeming many other Muslims to be heretics.

That is the position of the Shafi'i school of Sunni Islam that is practised by Iraqi Kurds.

Sunday's clashes marked the second day of unrest at al-Azhar University, Sunni Islam's most prominent centre of learning.

The Salafis, who follow an austere brand of Sunni Islam, say the foreigners are students of Islamic theology.

It later turned into a Sunni mosque and university that taught the four schools of mainstream Sunni Islam.

Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, preaches Sunni Islam together with a message of interfaith dialogue.

The confrontation between Sunni and Shia Muslims presents the greatest risk of major conflagration, while Sunni Islam has fragmented.