RLG204Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Twelver, Mahdi, Abbasid Caliphate
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P1: the sunni and the shia split or why the shia might just think they were robbed. A lot of sunnis think shia is being barbaric, splitters, rejected the truth of islam. The attitude towards the shia is typically negative and that theyre not following the true islam. Dealing with people constructing narratives with events. P1: safi (cid:395)uotes that (cid:396)efle(cid:272)t o(cid:374) the stud(cid:455) of (cid:396)eligio(cid:374): (cid:862)(cid:395)uote(cid:863) They are communites that contatin you to develop these narratives. Sunnis saying ugly possible things bout the shia. Shias say very bad things about the sunni as well. A bombing two weeks ago in paki, a group of shia and sunni decided to pray together. When he(cid:859)s talking about this, having hardened, its hardened seriously. (cid:862)it is (cid:374)atu(cid:396)al at ti(cid:373)es to p(cid:396)oje(cid:272)t the (cid:449)a(cid:455) that histo(cid:396)(cid:455) has pla(cid:455)ed out (cid:271)a(cid:272)k o(cid:374)to the ea(cid:396)lie(cid:396) phases a(cid:374)d atte(cid:373)pt to see late(cid:396) t(cid:396)e(cid:374)ds as i(cid:374)e(cid:448)ita(cid:271)le(cid:863). P3: even in those hardened conversations, ideas break through.
