Trends
Since most of London's Muslims have roots in South Asia, many follow the Sunni Hanafi school of Fiqh - an expansion of Islamic religious law. Sunni Muslims from the African continent mostly follow the Maliki school. Somalis, Yemenis, Malaysians and Indonesians follow the Shafi'i madhab. While roughly 90% of Arab Muslims in the London area are Sunni, there is a Shia minority from Iraq and Lebanon. Arab Sunnis are either Hanbali (Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Palestinian Authority, Egypt), Hanafi (Iraq), or Maliki (Morocco, Algeria).
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