i noticed.. since couple of months it seemed youths/muslim reverts/non-muslims.. online/offline. confused about some terminolgies found in muslim community so i am looking for Authentic definitions for the followings.. Islam Submit or surrender oneself to the Almighty Allah Muslim A person who submitts himself to Allah Sunni Muslim who believe in the Holy Quran, Ahadeeth, and that all sahaba, through whom Islam is transmitted to us are rightous Shia who believe that after nubuwwat, immamate was started and imam from ahle bait, masoom and aalim ul ghaib Madhab School of thought consisted of principles derived by jurists and classical scholars hanafi who follow hanafi school of thought shafaii who follow shafi school of thought hanbali who follow hanbli school of thought maliki who follow maliki school of thought salafi who claim to follow salaf and not follow one of the 4 established school of thought ahlehadith who believe to follow a school of thought is shirk Tableeghi move away in the path of Allah in jamaat to remind muslims their duties jamati islami believe islamic system can be brought democratically jamati muslemeen who call all the above and below groups and salaf as deviants. deobandi who studied from Darul uloom deoband or student its graduates barelwi believe that Prophet S.A.W.W is hazir o nazir(omni present), aalim ul ghaib, mukhtar e kul (possess all powers) and non-bashar. wahabi follower of Muhammad bin Abdul wahab, who considered all mushriks except themselves. ..to be contd. if find more.. but for now.. i need Authentic definitions for these since i want to compile these and put it in the local libraries for references so that it might help youths/revert m[/COLOR]ulsims/non-muslims to educate themselves about these terminologies.