A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi'is Thomas A. Desjardin From the American Revolution

From the American Revolution

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abandons his unit and is hell-bent on protecting Setara

and his musings on everything from music and politics to quantum mechanics and psychoanalysis

A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi'is Thomas A. Desjardin From the American RevolutionThe 1,400 year old schism between Sunnis and Shi'is is currently reflected in the destructive struggle for hegemony between Saudi Arabia and Iran with no apparent end in sight. But how did this conflict begin, and why is it now the focus of so much attention? Charting the history of Islam from the death of the Prophet Muhammad to the present day, John McHugo describes the conflicts that raged over the succession to the Prophet, how Sunnism and Shi'ism