RELIGST 2Q03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sharia, Taqiya, Kufa
7 Dec 2013
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If you agree with them, you are fine, if you disagree, they will kill you. Is a minor state of hiding and in 940, the prophet entered into a major state of hiding and he will ome back at the end of time. Rules for 12 years and followed the first two successors and the prophets. Agreed to follow in the footsteps of the previous caliphs. After the death of uthman, people turned to ali. Group of people that said that the quran should judge. They had the plan of killing ali, mu"awiya and amar bin aas. They killed ali in a mosque in ramadan while he was praying. They went around establishing who was right and wrong. In 763 they decided the to begin the contraction of a new capital. They held wielded real power for about 150 years but thereafter then under the power of a succession of dynasties that controlled baghdad, the seat of the caliphate.
