Editing Sunni Islam (section)

=== Classification of the Muʿtazila ===
The [[Muʿtazila|Muʿtazilites]] are usually not regarded as Sunnis. [[Ibn Hazm]], for example, contrasted them with the Sunnis as a separate group in his heresiographic work ''al-Faṣl fi-l-milal wa-l-ahwāʾ wa-n-niḥal''.<ref name="Ibn Hazm265f"/> In many medieval texts from the Islamic East, the ''Ahl as-Sunna'' are also differentiated to the Muʿtazilites.<ref>for example: Halm: "Der Wesir al-Kundurī und die Fitna von Nišāpūr". 1971, pp. 214, 216ff. (German)</ref> In 2010 the Jordanian ''[[fatwa]]'' office ruled out in a [[fatwa]] that the Muʿtazilites, like the Kharijites, represent a doctrine that is contrary to Sunnism.<ref>Dāʾirat al-Iftāʾ fī l-Mamlaka al-Urdunnīya al-Hāšimīya: [https://www.aliftaa.jo/Question2.aspx?QuestionId=489#.XtPmRsDgqUl al-Ašāʿira hum ǧumhūr ahl as-sunna wa-l-ǧamāʿa] Fatwa Nr. 489 vom 2. Februar 2010. [https://www.aliftaa.jo/Question2En.aspx?QuestionId=489#.XtPmkcDgqUk Englische Übersetzung]</ref> Ibn Taymiyya argued that the Muʿtazilites belong to the Sunnis in the general sense because they recognize the caliphate of the first three caliphs.<ref>Ibn Taimīya: ''Minhāǧ as-sunna an-nabawīya''. Ed. Muḥammad Rašād Sālim. Jamiʿat al-Imām Muḥammad Ibn-Saʿid, Riad, 1986. Bd. VI, S. 379. [https://archive.org/stream/WAQ94871/msn6#page/n377/mode/2up Digitalized]</ref>