The Doctrinal Schools and Religious Groups of Islam: Origins and Doctrines, by Moncef Zenati

By religious groups we mean the various politico-religious opposition groups that have appeared in the history of Islam, which have diverged on questions relating to the foundations of the Muslim faith. It is therefore not a question of the schools of Muslim law whose divergence revolves around practical questions and which is due to their divergence on the subject of the methodology for extracting prescriptions and the existence of texts whose meaning is conjectural, thus offering a multitude of interpretation and understanding.

This book aims to present the different politico-religious opposition groups that were born in the Muslim world (birth, founders, geographical location and doctrines). It identifies the doctrinal schools that make up Sunni Orthodoxy or Sunnism (ahl as-sunna wal-jama'a), and heterodox groups that have deviated from one or more of the foundations of Sunni Orthodoxy and groups that have come out of the framework of Islam in the consensus opinion of scholars.

About the author: Moncef Zenati

Theologian, specialist in the Sunna. Born June 11, 1970 in Le Havre. A graduate in mathematics and Islamic sciences, he is currently a teacher and head of the distance Islamic studies department in French at the IESH in Château-Chinon. Founding member of the Havre de Savoir association, he is also the author of several books including "La Sunna: mode d'emploi"