HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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the choice of a caliph to lead the Islamic community
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the belief in one God
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acceptance of the Quran
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the required pilgrimage to Mecca
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Detailed explanation-1: -Though the two main sects within Islam, Sunni and Shia, agree on most of the fundamental beliefs and practices of Islam, a bitter split between the two goes back some 14 centuries. The divide originated with a dispute over who should succeed the Prophet Muhammad as leader of the Islamic faith he introduced.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Sunnis and the Shi’ites compose the two main branches of Islam, similiar to the way Christianity has two main branches (Catholicism and Protestantism). Shi’ites believe that Islam should be led by descendants of Muhammad, while Sunnis believe that the leader of Islam should be appointed by election and consensus.
Detailed explanation-3: -It started with a fight over who should lead Muhammad’s followers after his death in 632.
Detailed explanation-4: -Political rivalries between the Ottoman and Safavid empires intensified the split within Islam between Sunni and Shi’a.
Detailed explanation-5: -Under the Sunni Law, a person who has caused the death of another, whether intentionally, or by mistake, negligence, or accident, is debarred from succeeding to the estate of that other. Homicide under the Shia Law is not a bar to succession unless the death was caused intentionally.