Sunni Bohras are a Sunni Muslim community in Sindh province of Pakistan and Gujarat state of India. Sharing a large number of cultural similarities with the Dawoodi Bohras, they are often confused as Bohras. However, they are different in the fact that they are Sunni following the Hanafi fiqh. Sunni Islam (Arabic سنّة) is the largest denomination of Islam. ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Turkish: Müslüman, Persian and Urdu: مسلمان, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of Islam. ... Sindh (SindhÄ«: سنڌ, UrdÅ«: سندھ) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and is home to the Sindhis, and Muhajirs and various other groups. ... Gujarāt (GujarātÄ«: , IPA: ,  ) is the most industrialized state in the Republic of India with 19. ... Dawoodi Bohras are the main branch of the Bohras, a MustaˤlÄ« subsect of IsmāīlÄ« Shīˤa Islām, and are based in India. ... Hanafi (Arabic: حنفي ) is one of the four schools of thought (Madhabs) or jurisprudence (Fiqh) within Sunni Islam. ...

Traditionally, they have been traders and most of them have the suffix 'wala' in their last name to designate their ancestral trade. Many Sunni Bohras are educated professionals with a large number of doctors and engineers among them.

Sunni Bohras have large communities in the major cities of Gujarat such as Ahmedabad and Surat as well as in smaller towns such as Patan, Himmatnagar, Visnagar, etc. There is a large community also based in Mumbai. After independence, some of the members of the community migrated to Pakistan, and there is a small community in Karachi. Recently, many Sunni Bohras from Ahmedabad, Surat and Bombay have migrated to the USA, Canada, Australia and the Gulf countries forming small pockets of communities throughout many cities (numbering upwards of 500 people in Chicago, IL). Ahmedabad (Gujarati: , Hindi: ) or is the largest city in the state of Gujarat and the seventh largest urban agglomeration in India, with a population of almost 70 lakhs (7. ... Surat   (Gujarati: સુરત) is a port city in the Indian state of Gujarat and administrative headquarters of the Surat District. ... Patan is : a city in Nepal (Patan, Nepal) a city and district in Gujarat (Patan, Gujarat) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Himatnagar is a city in Gujarat state of western India. ... Mumbai (IPA: ,Marathi: मुंबई), formerly known as Bombay, is the capital of the state of Maharashtra, and the most populous city of India, with an estimated population of about 13 million (as of 2006)[1]. Mumbai is located on Salsette Island, off the west coast of Maharashtra. ... Karachi (Urdu: كراچى, Sindhi: ڪراچي) is the capital of the province of Sindh, and the most populated city in Pakistan, sometimes known as the City of Quaid (شہرِ قائد), after Muhammad Ali Jinnah the founder of Pakistan. ... This article or section should be merged with Mumbai Mumbai (previously known as Bombay) is the worlds most populous conurbation, and is the sixth most populous agglomeration in the world. ...

Organizations

Sunnat Jamaat Quam-e-Bawahir (SJKB), Ahmedabad

Patni Sunnat Jamaat, Surat

External links and references

• Patni Jamaat
• List of Sunni Bohra Jamaats