Used as the religious origin story for the split between those who required leadership from Muhammad's bloodline and those who accepted competent faithful leadership.
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Sunni-Shia succession dispute
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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"So this rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia took three forms. The first form is religious. So even though they're both Muslim countries, Islamic..."
"The Shia people believe that only people who are the leaders of the religion will succeed. Only the person who can become the leader,..."
"...basic the most basic thing is um you often have self -disputes right if there's a war going on you invite the opposing General..."
"...corrupt popes. The trap of power. At the Last Supper, a dispute arises among the disciples as to which of them was considered to..."
"...I don't see how this has to do with a territorial dispute."
"because of dante i don't dispute this and if you talk to any academic he'll explain to you these very reasons okay you have..."
"...about their regional alliances, China does not want to participate in disputes among different nations."
"...where you know these different factions are trying to resolve the disputes for the bureaucracy or for legal loopholes for the judicial system for..."
"...to ten years this conflict conflict is driven not just by disputes among these countries, it's mainly driven by internal civil discord within these..."
"...align with the interests of certain nation states. And I don't dispute that. My rise in the internet has been meteoric."
"...you think that there's something wrong with my logic if you dispute what I say then raise a question and then my wife will..."
"...policy economic elementary 101, but the reality is that you can't dispute a single thing that I said about the economics of oil trade...."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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