Sunni and Shiite Islam: Do you know the difference? Take our quiz.
How well do you understand the differences between Sunni Islam and Shiite Islam? Take our quiz and find out!
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Roughly 87 percent of the world's approximately 1.6 billion Muslims are Sunni. The remaining 13 percent are Shiite.
Roughly 87 percent of the world's approximately 1.6 billion Muslims are Sunni. The remaining 13 percent are Shiite.
1. Which Muslim sect is larger demographically?
Thousands of Palestinian Muslims pray at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest shrine, December 25, 1999, during the first Friday prayers of Ramadan, Islam's holy month. (Shaul Schwartz/Reuters/File)
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