RELS 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Elijah Muhammad, Shia Islam, The Twelve Imams

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 131
• Professor: John H.Young

Document Summary

All shi as believe that ali was the appropriate successor or imam of the prophet muhammad. Large minority shi a group are the isma lis. Isma lis disagree about the identity of the 7 th imam. The elder son of the 6th imam died before his father; father appointed a younger son as his successor. Isma lis believe that the son of the deceased elder son, ahmad, was the rightful imam. Isma lis trace a succession from him to the present (currently the 49. 49th after the prophet muhammad) th imam in this line, as in the. Sufism: not a separate group like sunni or shi a . An ascetic and mystical tradition that runs across islam. This mystical tradition not initially accepted by many, and still is not regarded as islamic by some. Roots of sufism and early practitioners found almost from the beginning of islam.