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Shiites, in contrast, believe that only the heirs of the fourth caliph, Ali, are the legitimate successors of Mohammed. In 931 the Twelfth Imam disappeared. This was a seminal event in the history of Shiite Muslims. ... for Sunni Muslims, approximately 90 percent of the Muslim world, the loss of the caliphate after World War...
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Shiites, in contrast, believe that only the heirs of the fourth caliph, Ali, are the legitimate successors of Mohammed. In 931 the Twelfth Imam disappeared. This was a seminal event in the history of Shiite Muslims. ... Abu Bakr won, his followers became Sunni Muslims. Ali did eventually get to lead Islam 22 years after Abu...
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The focus of this article is to compare Shiite with Sunni Islam. ... marking them off from Sunni Islam... In early times this had not yet happened. The Muslims were still a single community, ... which differs from orthodoxy doctrinally, also has an entirely separate body of Hadith."31 Shiites, in contrast to Sunnis,
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www.rim.org/muslim/shiite.htm
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Shi'a–Sunni relations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sunni and Shī‘ah are the two major denominations of Islam. The demographic breakdown between the two groups is difficult to assess and varies by source, but a good approximation is that 85% of the ...
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This premise has been inconsistently practiced within the Sunni Muslim community throughout history. Sunni Muslims do not bestow upon human beings the exalted status given only to prophets in the Quran, in contrast to the Shiite veneration of imams.
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Sunni Islam, in contrast, more closely resembles the myriad independent churches of American Protestantism. ... It is alleged that instead of missionary work to non-Muslims, the Shia harbor a deep-seated disdain towards Sunni Islam and prefer to devote their attention to winning over other Muslims to their group.
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www.islamfortoday.com/shia.htm
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; (excerpt from Shiite Enyclopedia) ... Muslims agree that the caliphate of Abu Bakr came through election by a limited number of people and was a surprise for all other companions. By limited number, I mean, the majority of the prominent companions of prophet had no knowledge of ... The Sunni scholars say it is not necessary.
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There are two major Islamic sects: Sunni and Shiite. The two groups are very similar, ... Sunni comprise about 85 percent of all Muslims. Nations with Sunni majority include Egypt, Saudi Arabia and most other Arab nations, as well as non-Arab Turkey and Afghanistan. Most Palestinian Muslims are Sunni.
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Sunni Muslims view the caliph as a temporal leader only and consider an imam to be a prayer leader, but for the Shia the historic caliphs were merely de ... Moreover, Ali was regarded as more authentically representative of what Muhammad stood for and fought for, especially in contrast to the wealthy and worldly Umayyads.
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