HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Question
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Most Muslims today believe any dedicated Muslim can lead the Islamic world. This sect of Islam is called ____
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Sunni
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Shi’a
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Sufi
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Caliph
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Shia is another form of the word Shiite. Both refer to the branch of Islam that believes only blood relatives of the Prophet Muhammad are worthy to be religious leaders.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sunni Muslims believe that the Prophet did not explicitly declare a successor. Shia Muslims believe that the Prophet publicly designated his cousin and son-in-law, Hazrat Ali (peace be upon him), as the first in a line of hereditary Imams from the Prophet’s family to lead the community after him.
Detailed explanation-3: -After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the 1920s, the caliphate formally ended. Sunni Islam is divided into four schools of law or fiqh (religious jurisprudence): Hanafi, Shafi, Maliki and Hanbali.
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