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Why Did the First Islamic Civil War Fracture the Muslim Community? - The First Fitna and the Crisis of Early Islamic Authority | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the year 656, an elderly man reading the Quran in his home in Medina was murdered by rebels, and the blood that stained the sacred pages marked a permanent fracture in the early Muslim community. The man was Uthman ibn Affan, the third caliph, and his death shattered the assumption that the leader of the faithful possessed a moral protection that made his person inviolable. This episode examines the First Fitna, the first Islamic civil war, exploring how a rapidly expanding empire…
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