{"slug": "sunni-islam", "label": "Sunni Islam", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunni_Islam", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q483654", "qid": "Q483654", "description": "most populous Islamic denomination", "entries": 15, "years": 14, "span": [821, 2014], "span_label": ["821 CE", "2014 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Births", "count": 5}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Sunni", "Sunni Islamic", "Sunni Muslim"], "related": [{"slug": "baghdad", "label": "Baghdad", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "shia-islam", "label": "Shia Islam", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "zirid-dynasty", "label": "Zirid dynasty", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "abbasid-caliphate", "label": "Abbasid Caliphate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "algeria", "label": "Algeria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iraq", "label": "Iraq", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "islamic-state", "label": "Islamic State", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "israel", "label": "Israel", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "beirut", "label": "Beirut", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tunisia", "label": "Tunisia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kairouan", "label": "Kairouan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "yemen", "label": "Yemen", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 821, "year_label": "821 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Ibn Abi Asim, Muslim Sunni scholar (or 822)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941313#Births", "title": "821", "revid": 1340941313, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 822, "year_label": "822 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Ibn Abi Asim, Muslim Sunni scholar (or 821)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267074664#Births", "title": "822", "revid": 1267074664, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 900, "year_label": "900 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ibn Abi Asim, Muslim Sunni scholar (b. 822)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364042634#Deaths", "title": "900", "revid": 1364042634, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 933, "year_label": "933 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Al-Hakim Nishapuri, Persian Sunni scholar (d. 1014)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364917339#Births", "title": "933", "revid": 1364917339, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 994, "year_label": "994 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Ahmad al-Bayhaqi, Persian Sunni hadith scholar (d. 1066)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350027284#Births", "title": "994", "revid": 1350027284, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1014, "year_label": "1014 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Hammad ibn Buluggin adopts Sunni Islam and declares his independence from the Zirid dynasty (modern Algeria). He recognizes the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad as being the rightful caliphs and becomes the first ruler of the Hammadid dynasty (until 1028).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342212610#Africa", "title": "1014", "revid": 1342212610, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1014, "year_label": "1014 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Al-Hakim Nishapuri, Persian Sunni scholar (b. 933)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342212610#Deaths", "title": "1014", "revid": 1342212610, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1017, "year_label": "1017 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Sunnis of Kairouan (modern Tunisia) revolt against the Shi'ite Zirid dynasty. The city is quickly retaken and sacked.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342212758#Africa", "title": "1017", "revid": 1342212758, "section": "Events › Africa"}}, {"year": 1066, "year_label": "1066 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 9", "text": "April 9 – Al-Bayhaqi, Persian Sunni hadith scholar (b. 994)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370249569#Deaths", "title": "1066", "revid": 1370249569, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1173, "year_label": "1173 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi, Arab Sunni scholar (d. 1245)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300112960#Births", "title": "1173", "revid": 1300112960, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1311, "year_label": "1311 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 26", "text": "December 26 – Al-Mahdi Muhammad bin al-Mutahhar, the Shi'ite Muslim Imam of the Zaidiyyah state in Yemen, leads Zaidi troops to victory in a battle in the Sheref district against the Sunni Muslim Rasulid sultanate that dominates most of Yemen. A 10-year ceasefire agreement is brokered between Zaidiyyah and the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'udsultan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332018282#October_–_December", "title": "1311", "revid": 1332018282, "section": "Events › October – December"}}, {"year": 1749, "year_label": "1749 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 1", "text": "December 1 – Sultan Azim ud-Din I, recently forced to flee to Manila after being driven from the throne of Sultanate of Sulu elsewhere in the Philippine Islands, announces his intention to convert from Sunni Islam to become baptized as a Christian within the Roman Catholic Church. He changes his name to Fernando after being baptized.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360727483#October–December", "title": "1749", "revid": 1360727483, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1973, "year_label": "1973 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 10", "text": "April 10 – Operation Spring of Youth: Israeli commandos raid Beirut, assassinating 3 leaders of the Palestinian Resistance Movement. The Lebanese army's inaction brings the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Saeb Salam, a Sunni Muslim.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373239256#April", "title": "1973", "revid": 1373239256, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2008, "year_label": "2008 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "April 11", "text": "11 April – Suicide bombings killed at least four people—three of them police. The first bombing was in Ramadi, the provincial capital of the predominantly Sunni Anbar province. At least three national police officers were killed. The second attack took place at a checkpoint about 20 km north of Baiji, the bomber and one other person a local Awakening Council were killed. Also, at least three people were killed in a mortar attack on Baghdad's Palestine Hotel.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367045722#April", "title": "2008 in Iraq", "revid": 1367045722, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2014, "year_label": "2014 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 5", "text": "June 5 – A Sunni militant group now calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) begins an offensive through northern Iraq, aiming to capture the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad and overthrow the Shiite government led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373534475#June", "title": "2014", "revid": 1373534475, "section": "Events › June"}}]}