{"id":13,"date":"2007-02-12T19:09:45","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T01:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=13"},"modified":"2007-02-15T11:00:46","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T17:00:46","slug":"the-origins-of-the-shia-sunni-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-origins-of-the-shia-sunni-split\/","title":{"rendered":"The origins of the Shia-Sunni split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/programs\/morning\/features\/2007\/feb\/shia_history\/hussein_poster200.jpg\" alt=\"A Shiite Muslim holds a picture of historic Shiite leader Imam Hussein during an anti-American demonstration in Baghdad, May 29, 2003. Getty Images\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=7332087\">NPR<\/A> has a very interesting piece on the Shia-Sunni split.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The division in Islam between the Shia minority and the Sunni majority seems to be deepening, not just in Iran and Iraq, but across the Middle East. The split occurred soon after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, nearly 1,400 years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Catch up on your Ismlamic history and find out why Shiites are looking for a coming messiah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has a very interesting piece on the Shia-Sunni split. The division in Islam between the Shia minority and the Sunni majority seems to be deepening, not just in Iran and Iraq, but across the Middle East. The split occurred soon after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, nearly 1,400 years ago. Catch up on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-origins-of-the-shia-sunni-split\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The origins of the Shia-Sunni split<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}