Sunni Islam

The Secretary General of the Muslim World League, Muhammad al-‘Issa, was appointed to lead the main prayer at the annual pilgrimage, arousing the indignation of the Islamists. Who is al-‘Issa and why is he so controversial?

The demonstrations that the acquittal of the Christian woman has provoked have made the influence of Islamists in the country clear. What are the movements on the Pakistani political scene?

Ulama are religious experts. In sociological terms, they might be considered the Islamic clergy. Today they are at the center of a re-institutionalization project of Islam which several states are actively pursuing

The real novelty that the 2011 revolutions introduced is not the conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia but, rather, the confirmation of the Sunni crisis

With masterful conciseness, an eighteenth-century Indian thinker recounts how Islamic law was born and how the various legal schools were formed. What he teaches is that, within certain limits, a divergence of opinions is not a curse but, rather, a necessity

Shāh Walī Allāh, an Islamic intellectual of the eighteenth century, answers the question “What is Sunnism?”

While intellectuals are debating on the jihadist wave that has also destabilized the Land of Cedars, the Lebanese Islamic institutions seem to be resisting this threat.

With the exception of a few chosen ones, humankind is on the road to perdition. The all-encompassing project for the Islamic community’s regeneration developed by the Muslim Brotherhood is based on a dualistic vision of history

Having returned to the Middle-Eastern religious and political centre stage, Muslim clerics are split between supporting rulers, on the basis of a shared hostility towards political Islam, and contesting authoritarianism in the name of an Islamic democracy

In Sunnism, there can be no infallible interpreter of revelation after Muhammad’s death. The result is an interpretational pluralism that the ulama have tried to mitigate but not eliminate

This year’s research project, carried out thanks to the support of Fondazione Cariplo, focuses on two hubs of Sunni religious and political thought: Gulf countries and Morocco

Salafism is considered by its adherents as the purest Islam, both a cozy refuge for believers and an unassailable fortress for the enemies