Caliph does not exist today. as for the people with the most influence, I would say probably the respected scholars of Al-Azhar in Egypt and various others scholars like Yusef Qaradawi, Jamal Badawi, Yusef estes, Hamza Yusef, Bilal Phillips...
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They're a Black-Supremecist group, they beleive the Islam was invented by black scientists. Not even joking. They beleive white,arab,asian people aren't as evolved. They don't follow proper prayer times and beleive african scientists create...
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To gain a good basic understanding of Wahhabiyyah & it's impact in Islam I recommend taking a look at Wikipedia, especially here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_wahhabism_influnce_su...
Modern religion - be it Judaism, Catholicism or Islam (both Shia and Sunni) tend to be strict as they are prescriptive i nature and strictly adhere to a right and wrong. There tends to be a more liberal Shia element as most Shiites are from...
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Assalamu alaikum Is that a reliable fatwa? I ask because you rank him "up there" with "Ibn Taymiyyah" and the latter hardly held Islamic beliefs? What I mean by that is the belief of ascribing a body and so on to Allaa...
http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=366785
I'm not in this center. I'm not in that organization. As a matter of fact, we believe that Islam is documented in the Koran and modeled by the personality of prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him; and anything else is manmade. So it is a give...
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Muslims avoid identifying the Sunni and Shi`i traditions as different "Islams." But the two traditions, which developed over the course of centuries, shaped Muslim religious thought and practice.
http://watandost.blogspot.com/2007/11/intrafaith-q-on-s...