HIST 2890 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Khawarij

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2890
• Professor: Jooseop Lim

Document Summary

Ali was absent from medina when decision was made, uthman was chosen: uthman was a wealthy man, from the umayyad clan, sayyids scholars who are supported by local communities financially because they can date they"re line back to the prophet muhammad despite bakr"s efforts to stop that from happening, first 6 years of caliphate were peaceful, last 6 years as caliph he has trouble, starts handing out favours to family members (nepitism). 655? makes decision to have the qur"an compiled into one: public thought this was done, deligation from fusta, egypt, they tell uthman that they are displeased with a bunch of stuff, uthman tries to kill them, the delegation finds out and goes back to kill him, people were divided between whether his assassination was right or wrong, fitna trial or tribulation, this led to the first civil war in islam.