Sublime

Added to this group is the Shi‘ite school of law founded by Ja‘far as-Sadiq (d. 765), which will be dealt with in the following chapter. The

Unlike most of the other countries in the region, Iran is neither Arab nor of the Sunni branch of Islam. Instead, it is Persian and predominantly Shia, a branch of Islam that stemmed from a dispute over the proper succession to the Prophet Muhammad but over time came to reflect different practices and traditions.

les chiites sont, dans un premier temps, repliés sur eux-mêmes, et surtout très divisés. Récusant le titre de calife, ils ont porté à la tête de leur communauté un imam, titre pour eux aussi sacré que celui de nabi ou prophète – mais qui n’est pas à confondre avec l’imam sunnite qui conduit la prière dans chaque mosquée.

Therein lies the principal difference between the Shi‘ah and the Sunni. The Shi‘ah believe that salvation requires the intercession of Muhammad, his son-in-law Ali, his grandsons Hasan and Husayn, and the rest of the Prophet’s legitimate successors, the Imams, who not only serve as humanity’s intercessors on the Last Days, but who further function

The origins of the division within Islam go back to the era of the Prophet himself. Shi‘a Muslims believe that Mohammad chose his cousin Ali as his successor.* But despite this, others were elected as caliph or temporal leader after the Prophet’s death in AD 632: in succession, Abu Bakr, Omar, and Osman ibn Affan, the last of whom was assassinated

Leurs hadiths sont de deux sortes : les uns, exotériques, juridiques, explicitent le droit de l’islam chiite ; les autres, ésotériques, majoritaires et réservés aux initiés, traitent des « aspects cachés » de la religion et de l’univers. De fait, pour les chiites, toute chose possède en elle ces deux aspects, y compris le Coran,

Khomeini argued that in the absence of the Mahdi, divine guidance could come only from the Hidden Imam’s representatives on…

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