Mapping estimates of the global Muslim community suggests that the figure is between eighty-five and ninety percent and that Sunnis make up ninety percent or more of the population of Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Sunnis believe they are the orthodox branch of Islam and the name Sunni comes from the phrase Ahl al-Sunnah, or People of Tradition. In this case the tradition was based on the practices of the Prophet Muhammad to include things he said, did, accepted or condemned. The Sunnah guides all Muslims, the Sunnis underline its primacy, while the Shiites instead continued to live on the wisdom of Ali, son-in-law and cousin and descendant of