and spread across Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan and Bahrain have a Shia majority, though the latter is ruled by the Sunni House of Khalifa. In Yemen, the conflict has ...

While the Islamic world is predominantly of the Sunni ... Shia generally constitute only tiny minorities in other Muslim countries, including Algeria, Sudan, and Egypt in Northern Africa.

Map: Distribution of ... population in the Middle East-North Africa region. The figures for Shias are generally given as a range because of the limitations in the secondary-source data (see ...

There are more than 1.5 billion Muslims and about 20% of them live in the Middle East and North Africa ... So the maps below show the estimated distribution of the Sunni and Shia populations ...

Sunni rulers embarked on sweeping conquests that extended the caliphate into North Africa and Europe. The last caliphate ended with the fall of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. How do their ...

Here is a primer on the basic differences between Sunni and Shia Islam. Q ... sweeping conquests that extended the caliphate into North Africa and Europe. The last caliphate ended with the ...