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What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shia Islam?
Muhammad’s companion Abu Bakr, choosing instead to follow others who claimed prophetic status. For one year these factions vied for control of population centers in Arabia before those faithful ...
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Person of the Year
He is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the brooding muezzin of ... A member of an Iraqi tribe that claims lineal descent from the Prophet Muhammad, al-Baghdadi turned an early affinity for Quranic recitation ...
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How Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi rose from a radical religious scholar to the brutal leader of the most powerful terrorist group in the world
"Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead ... His family claimed to descend from the Prophet Muhammad's tribe, which made it possible for al-Baghdadi to later become the leader of the Islamic caliphate.