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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. History: Seffavean Dynasty -- Shiah Schism -- Shah Abbas the Great -- Nadir Shah -- His invasion of India -- State of that country -- Kureem Khan -- Aga Mohammed -- Haji Ibrahim -- Kajar Dynasty -- Expedition into Georgia -- Assassination of Aga -- Fetteh Ali -- Malcolm's Embassy Death of Haji Ibrahim -- War with Russia. The establishment of the Seffavean dynasty is chiefly remarkable for the foundation of the Shiah schism as the religion of Persia. As this belief has continued as the orthodox faith of the country to the present time, it may be interesting to give a brief description in this place of the origin of the two great religious sections into which Mohammedanism was, and is, divided. At the death of Mohammed, and when the tide of Arabian conquest rolled over the world, the few maxims suited to government in the Koran were found inadequate to the requirements of the varied nations who were enrolled under the banner of Islam. To remedy this difficulty, a collection of traditions and sayings of the Prophet was made and regarded as binding. It was called Soona, and those who believed in it Sunnies or Sonnites. Conflicting opinions had, as might be expected, arisen respecting the interpretation of various passages in the Koran itself, and the principal portion of the Sunnies agreed to recognize as correct the interpretation of four learned doctors, Hancefa, Malik, Shaffei, and Hanbal, who became the high priests of the religion. The Sunnies also considered that Abubekr (father-in-law of Mohammed and collector of the fragments of the Koran) and Othman were the lawful successors of the Prophet. In all these opinions they were opposed by the Shiahs, or Shiites (i. e. reprobates, as they are called by the Sunnies), who thought that Ali, son-in-law of ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217247108 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217247105 |
| Weight | 0.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 222 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-09-01 |
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