Essay On Islam Factions

The Islam factions are rooted in disagreements. The long standing debate was about who should be named successor after the death of the prophet Muhammad. Both factions wanted someone they could trust that would carry out the prophet’s customs and teachings. The Muslims could not come to an agreement so that is what caused the spilt. Because of the split, it caused a lot of different views on religion and political issues. These factions are mostly in the Eastern part of the world. These two factions are fighting over the power of being the top leaders and teachers in the Muslim communities. At first it was just a disagreement, but these Muslims could get along being intermingled with each other and recently things have become violent.
Most of the Muslims believed that the role of leader should be someone of blood line decent to the prophet, his cousin and brother-in-law Ali. The other half …show more content…
He was called an Imam. It is a term used by the Shiites which means that someone has leadership abilities and they are blood related to the prophet. Each leader in the Shiite passed down some type of spiritual knowledge to the next leader. The Imams were sought out for spiritual and political advice; they were leaders in those areas. The Sunni seem to have a better leader in their political field because they kept winning the political battle with the Shiite. The Imams thought it would be best to focus on developing their spirituality, so that would be the core of the Shiite Muslims beliefs and religion. The Muslims are mostly located on the Eastern side of the world.
The Sunni Muslims make up of the majority of the Muslims. They are location in the Middle East, Asia, North and East Africa. They also have expanded to Western Europe and North America. The Shiite Muslims make up the minority of the Muslims. They are location in Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Azerbaijan and the coast of Saudi Arabia and