# Sunni Islam · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow

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Sunni Islam
Ahl as-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah
632 CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · Worldwide majority
V. THE MEDIEVAL WORLD — c.500 – 1500 CE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 632 CE Abu Bakr elected caliph at Saqifa; the majority accept the choice.
- c.700–850 CE The four legal schools form around Abu Hanifa, Malik, al-Shafi'i and Ibn Hanbal.
- 833–851 CE The mihna, an inquisition under Caliph al-Ma'mun to force scholars to affirm that the Quran was created; Ibn Hanbal's refusal under flogging makes him the emblem of scholarly independence from the state.
- c.870–875 CE Bukhari and Muslim compile their hadith collections.
- 1058–1111 CE al-Ghazali reconciles law, theology and Sufism, and in The Incoherence of the Philosophers mounts the critique of Aristotelian philosophy that reshapes Sunni intellectual life.
- 1263–1328 CE Ibn Taymiyyah; a rigorist whose work becomes the reference point for later Salafism.
- 1517–1924 CE The Ottoman sultans hold the caliphate.
- 1924 CE The caliphate abolished; Sunni Islam has had no central institution since.
### Sources
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