LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT ALI AS.

) caliphs, as the initial 4 successors of Muhammad are termed. Reigning from 656 to 661, he was the 1st imam (chief) of Shiʿism in all its kinds. The question of his ideal into the caliphate (the political-religious structure comprising the Neighborhood of Muslims and its territories that emerged after the Demise of Muhammad) resulted in the only