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Resurgence In The Shiite World - Part 2 - The Historical Progression.
November 17, 2003... After the birth of the new religion of Islam, and the rifts that characterised its early years, by the late 7th century AD the division between Shiism and Sunnism was firmly in place. The centuries that followed were marked by rapid conquest of...
Background History: The 8th - 20th Century A.D.
November 17, 2003... In keeping with Shiite tradition, Zain Al Abidin named his son Mohammed Al Baqir as his spiritual heir before his death in 712. Baqir continued with the accommodating approach towards the Ummayyads taken by his father, but those Shiites...