HISTORY 16A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hanafi, Maliki, Academic Freedom
29 Aug 2016
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More than one denomination, as in all other religions. Variety in the shiria (the laws: vary by geographic location. Sunni and shia: sunni is majority 80-90 percent, shia is a minority, violence between these two, cannot dismiss each other because they both go back to early islam, muhammad dies, disagreement begins. Ali was his cousin and son in law. Successors of muhammad should be his family ali should be his successor. Shouldn"t just be the family of the prophet, but the elders. Origin of the split: abu bakir becomes the first successor, ali gets assassinated. His son, hussein (grandson of the prophet) wants to be successor and is martyred. Sunnis think muhammad did not see death coming. Shia: never in control fully, in their minds, they had the imams running the show, there was a lineage of the prophet that survived and they continued to be successors for a few hundred years.
