To begin, I’d like to think I have an exceptional grasp on the Islamic religion. I remember my first formal introduction, it was sophomore year in AP Human Geography. I admired my teacher and she seemed pretty knowledgeable but she taught the two sects as “Shiite” and “Sunni”. So my confidence in my knowledge was diminished lmaooooo. But it was like I had an skimpy outline in my head (why there are two sects, 5 pillars, holy places, “characters” within the Quran, all about pilgrimage, the Gulf wars, now what I’ve learned from Percepolis) and he handed me a final draft. I felt like everything he said was important, def my most intense note taking lecture this semester. A few of the points that really helped me connect all the dots were the Arab Invasion of 636 C.E., “Shi’a”, ISIS is Sunni, Reza Kahn is strictly a political leader, Hussein is Sunni leading a Shi’a nation, and that even Al Qaeda thought 2010 Iraq was kray. For one, I never really understood why that specific region was so into Islam. I just assumed since that’s where the religion was born, just as the Israeli’s and Palestinian's are pretty into their religions. Being told about the invasion, and the spread of Islam that clicked in my head. Once he continued on to say that the Empire after and so on and so forth carried out Islamic rule. I’m honestly still a little confused as to how a Sunni Muslim became the leader of a Shi’a nation. I assume he “ceased” power just as other leaders at that time had done.
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