Home›Other Islamic Movements and Sects›Rooted InBrowse ByRooted InThis page groups religious orders by the spiritual lineage they claim to descend from. Wikipedia notes that Sufi orders each keep a chain of transmission and that "almost all orders trace their silsila back to the Islamic prophet Muhammad." Browsing by rooted-in lets a visitor trace an order back to the figure its own claimed lineage begins with.FactsRooted InSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedReligious Orders 1Rooted InFilter Results1 entryAdherents Today MaximumAll1,750,000,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll1,600,000,000 (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllScholarly or Demographic Estimate (1)Date of Separation End YearAll680 (1)Date of Separation Start YearAll632 (1)Defining Doctrinal PositionAllSuccession to the Prophet settled by the community (1)GovernanceAllAuthority in trained scholars, with no central office (1)No central authority (1)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCodified Obligation With Consequences (1)Liturgical LanguageAllClassical Arabic (1)The vernacular (1)Membership Figure As OfAll2009-01-01 (1)OrdinationAllNo ordination; authority rests on learning or on the whole body (1)Restricted to men (1)Origin Period End YearAll900 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll632 (1)Position on MarriageAllMarriage may licitly be polygynous (1)Position on SexualityAllSame-sex orientation or practice is held to bar full membership or participation (1)Relation to the StateAllEstablished (1)Standard Rate ExpectedAllTwo and a half percent. (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (1)Show ResultsSunniRooted In2 entriesSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category TreeComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.