Sunni Bohra

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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.

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).