Islam is the second largest religion in terms of numbers of members across the world today. Muslims account for roughly one-fifth of the world's population with over 1 billion adherents.
Like most religious traditions, Islam has had, and continues to have, multiple interpretations and applications throughout its history and even more so today. As a result, there are a variety of Islamic movements, which display the many faces and forms of Islam. Religious authority in Islam is distributed among numerous Ulema and jurists whose ...