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Also Known As Sunnism • Sunnite • Ahl as-Sunnah • Sunnī

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Geographical distribution of the religions of the world in the early 1980s.
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Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī
Indian mystic and theologian
al-Ṭabarī
Muslim scholar

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