Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam (/ˈsuːni/ or /ˈsʊni/) is a denomination of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad's first Caliph was his father-in-law Abu Bakr. Sunni Islam primarily contrasts with Shi'a Islam, which holds that Muhammad's son-in-law and cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib, not Abu Bakr, was his first caliph. Sunni Islam is by far the largest denomination of Islam. As of 2009, Sunni Muslims constituted 87–90% of the world's Muslim population. Its adherents are referred to in Arabic as ahl as-sunnah wa l-jamāʻah (Arabic: أهل السنة والجماعة‎), "people of the tradition of Muhammad and the consensus of the Ummah" or ahl as-sunnah (Arabic أهل السنة) for short. In English, its theological study or doctrine is called Sunnism, while adherents are known as Sunni Muslims, Sunnis, Sunnites and Ahlus Sunnah. Sunni Islam is the world's largest religious denomination, followed by Roman Catholicism. Sunni Islam is sometimes referred to as "orthodox Islam". The word "Sunni" comes from the term Sunnah (Arabic سنة), which refers to the sayings and actions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad as recorded in the hadith.

Sunnis (Dungeons & Dragons)

Sunnis is an archomental in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

Publication history

Sunnis first appeared with the good archomentals in the second edition book Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix III (1998).

Sunnis appeared with the good archomentals in the third edition in Dragon #353 (March 2007).

Description

Sunnis is an Archomental, the Elemental Princess of Good Earth. She takes the form of a tall, muscular woman with features chiseled out of stone and is a power to be respected on the Elemental Plane of Earth. Though she doesn't concern herself with amassing followers, there are still many that follow her, including earth elementals, galeb duhr, rebel dao, xorn, dwarves, gnomes, svirfneblin, gulgars, earth genasi, stonechildren, earth mephits, oreads, stone spikes, hammer archons, and stone giants. The majority of her worshippers on the Prime Material Plane among the humanoid races tend to be bonded summoners, druids, earth elemental savants, stonelords, and earth shugenjas.