Editing Religious denomination (section)

==Islam==
{{main|Islamic schools and branches}}
[[History of Islam|Historically]], Islam was divided into three major sects, well known as [[Sunni]], [[Khawarij]] and [[Shī'ah|Shi'ah]]. Nowadays, [[Sunnis]] constitute about 90% of the overall [[Muslim population]]; the [[Shi'as|Shi'ahs]] are around 10%,<ref name=PEW2009>{{cite web|title=Mapping the Global Muslim Population|date=7 October 2009|url=http://www.pewforum.org/2009/10/07/mapping-the-global-muslim-population/|access-date=10 December 2014}}</ref> while [[Ibadi Islam|Ibadis]], from the [[Kharijites]], [[Ibadi Islam#Demographics|have diminished to a level below 0.15%.]]

Today, many of the [[List of extinct Shia sects|Shia sects are extinct]]. The major surviving [[Imamah]]-[[Muslim Sects]] are [[Usulism]] ''(with nearly more than 8.5%),'' [[Nizari Ismailism]] ''(with nearly more than 1%),'' [[Alevism]] ''(with slightly more than 0.5%<ref>According to David Shankland, [[Alevism#Demographics|15% of Turkey's population.]] in ''Structure and Function in Turkish Society.'' Isis Press, 2006, p. 81.</ref> but less than 1%<ref name="Near East' 1997">According to Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi, ''Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East'' edited by her, B. Kellner-Heinkele, & A. Otter-Beaujean. Leiden: Brill, 1997.</ref>).'' The other existing groups include [[Zaydi Shi'a]] of [[Religion in Yemen|Yemen]] whose population is nearly more than 0.5% of the world's Muslim population, [[Musta'li Ismaili]] (''with nearly 0.1%<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main48.asp?filename=Ws220211BOHRASII.asp|title=Tehelka - India's Independent Weekly News Magazine|access-date=2015-11-10|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071849/http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main48.asp?filename=Ws220211BOHRASII.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> whose [[Taiyabi]] adherents reside in [[Gujarat]] state in [[India]] and [[Karachi]] city in [[Pakistan]]. There are also significant [[diaspora]] populations in Europe, North America, the Far East and [[East Africa]]<ref name="paul">{{cite conference |title=Die Dawoodi Bohras – eine indische Gemeinschaft in Ostafrika |first=Eva |last=Paul |conference=Beiträge zur 1. Kölner Afrikawissenschaftlichen Nachwuchstagung |year=2006 |url=http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/kant/data/PE1_kant1.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/kant/data/PE1_kant1.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref>).''

On the other hand, new [[Muslim sects]] like [[African American Muslims]], [[Ahmadi Muslims]]<ref>{{cite book| author = Simon Ross Valentine| title = Islam and the Ahmadiyya Jamaʻat: History, Belief, Practice| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Q78O1mjX2tMC&pg=PA61| date = 2008-10-06| publisher = Columbia University Press| isbn = 978-0-231-70094-8| page = 61 }}</ref> ''(with nearly around 1%<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dgtgGhMUgIUC&pg=PA72|title=Asian Religions in British Columbia|quote=The community currently numbers around 15 million spread around the world|author1=Larry DeVries |author2=Don Baker |author3=Dan Overmyer  |date=January 2011|name-list-style=amp |access-date=March 29, 2014|isbn=978-0-7748-1662-5|publisher=University of Columbia Press}}</ref>),'' [[non-denominational Muslims]], and [[Quranist Muslims]] were later independently developed.

A survey by the [[Pew Research Center]] suggests that up to 25% of Muslims globally self-identify as [[non-denominational Muslims]].<ref name="preface2">{{Cite web |date=9 August 2012 |title=Preface |url=https://www.pewforum.org/2012/08/09/the-worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity-preface/}}</ref>