 Majority of Muslims are Sunni with many of those being linked to the Tijaniya Sufi brotherhoods.Approximately 7% are Shi'a and 6% Ahmadi.Hammallism and Sanusiya sects have had historic influence in the far west and far northeast of the county in the colonial period, while sections of Nyassist Sufi orders and Arab Wahhabite followers have appeared in the last thirty years.