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Reza Aslan on Martyrdom, Islam, and Revolution

Conversations with Tyler

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The Ali Story in Shiism

Shiism arose out of Sunni Islam in the 7th century, primarily as a response to what was fundamentally just a disagreement. The Prophet's family lost that argument and over the next generation or so, Islam became a kind of aerobocentric empire. One of the Prophet's grandsons, Hussein, decided to launch an ill-fated revolution against what he saw as a corrupt and unjust empire.

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