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Tradition Vs Charisma: the Sunni-Shi’i Divide in the Muslim World

A Kurdish Islamic cleric from Sulaymaniyah, on the other hand, claimed that Zoroastrianism was not the ancestral religion of Kurds and that it forced on them by “fire-worshipping Persians”, where as Islam freed them, and he called on Kurds to

The Sunni-Shia Divide

Since the conversion to Christianity, Roman Catholicism, with its ecclesiastical seat at Armagh in Northern Ireland, has been the island’s principal religion. So do the astronomical discoveries of the last few centuries have implications for religion? Tapsell, however, was somewhat

What is the Shia-Sunni Divide?

Some religions have harmonized with local cultures and can be seen as a cultural background rather than a formal religion. Sikhs are not ubiquitous worldwide in the way that adherents of larger world religions are, and they remain primarily an

The Sunni-Shiite Divide in the Middle East is about Nationalism, not a Conflict within Islam

The Russian Orthodox Church, which nowadays acts as a privileged religion of Russia, has the power to decide which other religions can be registered as official religions. Ibrahim was born in a house of idolaters in the ancient city of