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Sunni and Shia Islam

In Our Time: Religion

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The Sunni and Yeshir Split

In contrast to the founders of some other world religions, Muhammad played many different roles. So it wasn't easy for his family to follow him so they adopted the idea of election by elders. Was this, can we see in this the beginning of what became the Sunni and Yeshir split? In a sense we can. One way of looking at really is that there were a variety of different ways one could have managed the succession.

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