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What has the author Serge Lafitte written?
Serge Lafitte has written: 'Chiites et sunnites'
What has the author Muhammad Haroon written?
Muhammad Haroon has written: 'The rule of Allah alone' -- subject(s): Sunnites
What has the author Amatzia Baram written?
Amatzia Baram has written: 'Who are the insurgents?' -- subject(s): Insurgency, Sunnites, Political activity, History
Branch of Islam found primarily in Iraq and Iran?
Iran has shia Islam as the state religion and about 96% of Iranians are actually shiites. Iraq is a more difficult situation, Iraq consists of three major religious groups, Shiite muslims, Sunnite muslims and Kurds. Kurds live in the North-west of the country, shiites live in the east and north-east of the country (along the border with Iran), and sunnites are found in the rest of the country. Kurds don't have a main religion. some are shiites, some are sunnites. The majority of kurds are sunnites though. the overall religion of Iraq consists of 65% Shiites and 35% sunnites. this has created a lot of difficulty for Iraqi politics. the President is a sunnite and the prime minister is a shiite. it took more than 100 days for the winning parties to form a coalition partially because of the religious differences.
What has the author Marwan Ja'far written?
Marwan Ja'far has written: 'Ahlussunnah wal jama'ah' 'Energynomics' -- subject(s): Energy conservation, Economic aspects 'Ahlussunnah wal jama'ah' 'Aswaja' -- subject(s): Doctrines, N.U. (Organization), Sunnites, Islam
What religions are practiced in iran?
Shi'a Islam is the state religion of Iran, and the main religion practised in Tehran. Other religions present but monitored are the Bahá'í faith, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Zoroastrianism.
What are some groups that suffered discrimination?
African Americans faced discrimination until maybe the 80's.The Japanese-Americans faced discrimination from other Americans during World War II because of Pearl Harbor.why were they discriminated?
What year did the Sunnites and the Shiites separate?
when prophet died. shia and sunni have mostly same beliefs and both believe in fundamental beliefs of Islam. today there is up to 260 sect in Islam that are in two category of shia and sunni. shia believes in Allah, prophet and all fundamentals of Islam. shia believe after death of prophet God selects the successive for prophet who is the leader of Muslim community and people can not select it. shia believe the Caliph (Representative of God in earth after prophet) is appointed only by God and can not be selected by people because God said in Koran: "Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority." (Quran 2:30) this means only God can select an Islamic leader. in shia they are only fourteen infallible (12 Imams and prophet and his daughter Fatimah Zahra (sa)) and all of them are the same and have no mistake and have the knowledge of everything (this knowledge is from God and by permission of God and is not absolute knowledge. absolute knowledge is only for God and they still do not know many things. but they know anything human may need to know.) and they never die and they hear all sayings and even thinks of all humans after their death by permission of God and they are intermediates between God and human. and shia Muslims always support them and forgive their lives for them. shia Muslims do not consider selection of Abubakr as Caliph valid because God did not select him. they believe God ordered prophet to declare Ali is selected as successor of prophet (Quran 5:3) and prophet did this mission in Ghadir event that was in last Hajj of prophet in his life and prophet did a speech for 120,000 Muslims participating that Hajj with prophet. the famous shia book Al-Ghadir is a collection of evidences and proofs for Ghadir Hadith from 100,000 sunni references and read all of 10,000 sunny books. one sunni scholar said if we want to reply Al-Ghadir book (by Allameh Amini) we should first destroy all our books.
What are the two major sects of Islam?
Answer 11. Wahhabi: This group tends to be the most strict and "puritanical." Mohammed Ibn Abd al-Wahhab founded the sect in the eighteenth century by preaching strict adherence to the Qur'an. Saudi Arabia's moralistic, authoritarian rule is an example of Wahhabi devotion.2. Shi'ites: Their name means "partisans." They believe that only descendants of Mohammad's family are the rightful heirs to spiritual leadership. Found mainly in Iran, Yemen, Algeria, and Iraq, Shi'ites tend to revere the Shari'a (thought not as fervently as the Wahhabi). About ten percent of all Muslims belong to this branch of Islam. Their leaders, Imams, wield dogmatic spiritual authority, as in the case of the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran. Some Shi'ites believe that a twelfth Imam who disappeared in A.D. 882 will return someday as a messiah, the Madhi (guided one), to establish a kingdom on earth. The sub-sect Ismailis believe that an Imam of sinless perfection with the power to perform miracles always dwells on earth. They are firmly entrenched today as a merchant class in India and East Africa. The Aga Khan is their Imam.3. Sunnites: Those who follow the tradition of the prophet are called Sunnites. They compose ninety percent of all Muslims. Since Mohammad left no clear instructions concerning his successor, Sunnites decided their Islamic leader should be nominated by representatives of the community. The "ulama" Sunnite religious scholars have less authority than the Imam and are considered to be teachers and wise sages. Sunnites accept the line of successions as passing through the four caliphs: Abu Bakr, Omar, Othman, and Ali.Evangelical Christians should not be resentful of the seeming arrogance displayed by the present Arabic spiritual descendants of Mohammad. G-d did promise to make of Ishmael's offspring a great nation (Gen. 16:9-11; 17:20; 21:13, 18; 25:12-18). Their ascent might be viewed as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy.Answer 2There may be many sects in Islam. The most two dominant sects are : Ahl-i-Sunnat walJama't (commonly called Sunni) and Shiia. Both these Sects have further many sub-sects.
What gave rise to a fundamental division in the umma and in Muslim theology?
There really was no 'fundamental division in theology". Silly as it may sound in view of IS atrocities and the Sunni / Shia fights in Iraq and Syria, the major difference between the two beliefs is purely the result of a dispute over leadership in the 7th (!) century AD. The Sunnis think that a guy named Abu Bakr and his family was the prophet Muhammad's rightful successor, while the Shiites thought that is was Muhammad's son-in-law Ali. The theological differences are few and all very minor. Until the end of the 20th century, Shiites and Sunnites generally lived peacefully together and intermarriage was common. Today's division is mostly the result of an ongoing struggle for political dominance of the Middle East between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran - plus in the past few years, Sunni Turkey that hankers for a return of some of its former Ottoman Empire greatness.
What are the 2 branches of Islam?
Answer Ashiite and sunniShia and Sunni have mostly same beliefs and both believe in fundamental beliefs of Islam. Today there is up to 260 sects in Islam that are in two main categories of shia and sunni.the conflict of shia and sunni has been always amplified by world Imperialism to prevent Islam from gaining power.Shia believes in Allah, prophet and all fundamentals of Islam.Shia pray 5 times a day but usually do the 2, 3 and 4, 5 pray together and so may seem they do only 3 pray a day. there is some differences in details of pray like genuflect (for shia should be on a stone or part of earth and for sunni on carpet or floor ).shia believe after death of prophet God selected the successive for prophet who is the political leader of Muslim community and people can not and does not the right to selected it.Shia believes the Caliph (Representative of God in earth) is selected only by God and can not be selected by people because God said in Koran: "Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority" (Quran 2:30) or "O David! We did indeed make thee a vicegerent on earth" (Quran 38:26) also other verses.Shia believes such verses means only God can select an Islamic political leader (Caliph).In Shia Islam Caliphs after prophet are 12 Imams and all of them are the same and have no mistake and have the knowledge of everything (not absolute knowledge like knowledge of God) and they hear all sayings and even thinks of all humans after even after their death by permission of God and they are intermediates between God and human Shia Muslims always support them and forgive their lives for them.Shia Muslims do not consider selection of Abubakr as Caliph by people valid because God did not select him. They believe God ordered prophet to declare people that Ali is selected as successor of prophet and prophet did this mission many times during his prophet-hood and mainly in Ghadir event after last Hajj of his life at a 3-4 hour speech in front of 120,000 Muslims at Ghadir in hot desert after 2 days stop of long caravan for gathering and 3 days after speech for congratulations and homage of Muslims to Ali. Islam at that time had high power in world and Some companions had high interest in leadership position after prophet. Muslims knew that it is the final Hajj of prophet (predicted by prophet) and were going along with prophet to hear what prophet says at end of his life. Shia believes Ghadir event is the most important event of Islam and is mentioned in Koran in many verses like "Today" (اليوم) in verse 5:3 of Quran is the day of Ghadir. Or Verse 5:67 (O Messenger! proclaim the (message) which hath been sent to thee from thy Lord. If thou didst not, thou wouldst not have fulfilled and proclaimed His mission. And Allah will defend thee from men (who mean mischief). For Allah guideth not those who reject Faith) is revealed at Ghadir day and is about declaring political leadership of Ali after prophet.Both Sunni and Shia Muslims accept happening of Ghadir event But different interpret. Some Sunni writers tried to reject the event of Ghadir as declare of leadership of Ali and said at Ghadir prophet only wanted to say Ali is my friend and no one should bother him. Ali had 3 different missions to Yemen by prophet during 10 years and in 2 of them some companions of prophet had some conflicts with Ali and and prophet said some sayings about Ali to solve conflicts and some sunni writers have mixed stories of missions of Ali to Yemen with story of Ghadir to prove Ghadir event is not about Leadership of Ali and is not important.Shia scholars believe some Sunni writers have changed and deviated historical evidences about political leadership of Ali in old historical books and republished them to destroy evidences of leadership of Ali from old Sunni books.The famous Shia book Al-Ghadir (الغدير) by Allameh Amini is a collection of evidences and proofs for Ghadir Events written after referring to 100,000 Sunni books and full reading of 10,000 sunny books. Allameh Amini is a famous Shia scholar and spent 40 years of his life in travelling to access original old Sunni books in libraries in different countries to write this 20 volume book only from Sunni books and not using any Shia book. Some Sunni scholars tried to reply this book but then said if we want to reply this book we should first destroy all books of ourselves.Shia doctrine have root in Karbala tragedy. When tragedy of Karbala happened most of Iranians understood there is two different kinds of Islam and after happening of Karbala tragedy most of Iranians became followers of "Ahl al-Bayt" and forgive their lives for them like what they did in Iranian Revolution and Iran-Iraq War. Shia Muslims have at least 120,000 Hadith (saying) from The Fourteen Infallibles that is the base of Shia Islam along with Quran. Shia believes according to " Hadith of the two weighty things" The Fourteen Infallibles are the only valid interpreters of Quran and sayings of them are from God because they are Representative of God in earth and they do not say anything from themselves. Shia believes 12th of them (Mahdi) is alive and because people have killed all 11 Imams before him, he is in hide like Jesus and will come out of hide toghether with Jesus when people become ready and want to accept his leadership. All 11 Imams have been killed and during their life thy all have been in prison or under hard control of government to not have any political action. They never had enough serious followers to can get political power. Among them only the sixth Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq was relatively free in his life to have only scientific activities (but banned from any political action) and so only he is known in west because he established university and had students from all over the world. Westerns know him as a polymath: an astronomer, alchemist, Imam, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, writer, philosopher, physician, physicist and scientist. He was also the teacher of the famous chemist, Jābir ibn Hayyān (Geber), and of Abū Ḥanīfa, the founder of the Hanafi school of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence. He never wanted be a famous man and only shared his knowledge with who wanted to learn. Some researchers consider his teachings the root cause of renaissance.Sunni Muslims also accept Mahdi and his worldwide leadership as Caliph of God in earth at end of world. There is a famous Hadith from prophet Muhammad (PBUH) that Mahdi at hide is like sun behind cloud, he is hidden from people but people receive his benefits. Shia Muslims say some faithful believers have connection with Mahdi and use his knowledge. Shia Muslims believe that it is proved at least 1000 persons have had connection and talk with Mahdi during his hide period but Any one having relation with Mahdi keep it and does not declare it in public until is alive.Answer:There are no sects in Islam. There is only Islam - as it is clearly, clearly, CLEARLY documented and PRESERVED in the Qur'an and the teachings of Muhammad.a HUGE 85% of all those who call themselves Muslim are actually following Islam. The other 15% - the Shiiah, theSuffis, the Qadianis, the Ahmadiyyah are ALL ASTRAY from the message of Muhammad.There is on ly one Islam. If you are inventing things (like the Shiah have done) THEN DON'T CALL IT ISLAM.
What is the political difference between the Sunni and Shiite Muslims?
The main difference between Sunni and Shiite Muslims is their belief surrounding who should have succeeded the Prophet Muhammad in 632 AD. Historically, Sunni Muslims believed that Abu Bakr was the rightful successor, while Shiite, or Shia, Muslims thought it should have been Ali ibn Abi Talib.
