Islam
Jihad! The Sunni-Shia Split:
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Join us for a four-week introductory class on one of the globe’s most fascinating and misunderstood religions. In 570 Muhammad ibn Abdallah, a/k/a, the one true Prophet, Muhammad, was born. This session will explore his organization of a movement that has come to be known as Islam. ___________
— an announcement from Darien Library
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In so doing he charted the course for the expansion of a vast empire, one that would see to the massive conversion of peoples until finally, today, Islam boasts over 1 billion adherents. With his death, though, the seeds were planted for a discord among the Faithful which afflicts their beloved religion to the present day, the Sunni-Shia Split.