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Ash'ari

A school of Islamic theology founded by Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari (d. 935 CE) t...

Maturidi

A school of Islamic theology founded by Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (d. 944 CE) in...

Hanafi School

One of the four major Sunni schools of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), founded by Imam Abu Hanifa (699–767...

Shafi'i School

...0 CE). Imam al-Shafi'i is widely regarded as the founder of Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh), having systematized the sour...

Zahiri School

A historical school of Islamic jurisprudence founded by Dawud ibn Khalaf al-Zahiri (815–...

Jariri School

A historical school of Islamic jurisprudence founded by the great scholar and historian ...

Khawarij (Kharijites)

The first major deviant sect in Islamic history, emerging in 657 CE (37 AH) after the Battle of S...

Ibadi Islam

A moderate offshoot from the early Khawarij movement, founded by Abdullah ibn Ibad in 684 CE. Unlike the Khawarij, the Ibadis do not consider ordinary Muslim si

Shia Islam

Shia Islam is a broad umbrella encompassing various groups that arose ...

Zaydi Shia

The Zaydi branch of Shia Islam, named after Zayd ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn, who revolted again...

Sufi Orders (Tariqahs)

...nized spiritual brotherhoods (tariqahs) that emerged in the Islamic world from around the 9th–10th centuries CE. Each order i...

Deobandi

A major Islamic reform movement founded in Deoband, India in 1867 CE, nam...

Barelvi

A major Islamic movement founded by Ahmad Rida Khan (1856–1921 CE) in Bar...

Tablighi Jamaat

A grassroots Islamic missionary movement founded in Mewat, India in 1927 CE by...

Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan al-Muslimun)

A pan-Islamist political and social movement founded in Egypt in 1928 C...

Jamaat-e-Islami

A major Islamist political movement founded in British India in 1941 CE b...

Hizb ut-Tahrir

A pan-Islamist political party founded in Jerusalem in 1953 CE by Taqiu...

Progressive Islam

A broad movement that seeks to reform or reinterpret Islam in light of modern liberal values, including gender equalit...

Ahmadiyya (Qadiani)

...themselves Muslim but are officially declared non-Muslim by Islamic law and the Pakistani constitution.

Nation of Islam

...o be Allah incarnate. Its theology bears no relationship to Islamic monotheism: it teaches that white people are a race of de...

Druze

... syncretic esoteric religion that emerged from Ismaili Shia Islam in 1017 CE, founded by Hamza ibn Ali and the Fatimid Caliph...

Baha'i Faith

...ucture headquartered in Haifa, Israel. It is explicitly NOT Islam.

Alevism

...olia (Turkey) in the medieval period, combining elements of Islam, Shia veneration of Ali, pre-Islamic Anatolian shamanism, a...