0. peace it will be in doha the top stories from al-jazeera at least 3 people have been killed in israeli airstrikes in gaza funerals have been held for a palestinian islamic jihad commander and his wife who died in an israeli air strike on their home in gaza overnight israeli airstrikes have also hit apartment buildings on a hamas for silla t.v. in gaza. the israeli military says around 50 rockets have been fired from gaza prompting the closure of schools and some transport services video released by the roads of orally showed what appears to be a rocket exploding on a busy highway it's really warplanes have fired missiles towards damascus into the neighborhood of meds are to hit

a house belonging to another commander of islamic jihad it's unclear what happened to him but his son and granddaughter have been killed while matheson has more now from west jerusalem the situation is very significant also because this is the 1st time since the end of the gaza war in 2014 that israel has used a targeted attack on such a senior figure it has carried out targeted attacks on other individuals but not at this level of seniority. hong kong police have been firing tear gas and engaging in running battles with protesters across several parts of the city anti-government demonstrators set up barricades paralyzing streets and public transport the hong kong leader kerry called the protest quote a very selfish act. a large area of eastern australia has been given one of the country's most serious bushfire warnings the sydney region has been given a catastrophic danger level for the 1st time i winds and rising temperatures are

fanning flames close to sydney's outskirts now thomas is at one of those fires on the outskirts of sydney. they spun thoughts into looking for any remaining flames because if i put out all of them it wouldn't take much for a gust of wind spread this far and it reignites i went out in the middle of the countryside here this is 18 kilometers away from sydney's hall the bridge very much within the city limits and it's that extensive the flying's the media well look to lots of people live that make this far emergency in australia very different to others that have come the full feel thirty's of cool conditions on tuesday trying to stop it and what that relates to is the high temperature combined with high wind combined with a very high what they call fuel load very dry shrubs and trees with a drought in this part of australia and it means that there's no militia in anything so when flames take calls they travel very very fast at times to be more than 70 set by as burning across the state of new south wales alone on choose day

well this spot was right opposite sean murphy east park and showing you what here when it's a cult it all happened very very fast and you tell me about that in about 5 minutes there were sirens and then looked out the front of fame's 3 for me this high part of the train's right of my doorstep pretty much. but quite quickly the planes and helicopters in the ample minya helicopter far east were here before i saw the fire and then there was a plane within 5 to 10 minutes and helicopters dropping what i. just put out a window in the middle of nowhere this is close to 20 minute drive to the center of sydney yet almost yes definitely in sydney. when things go it happened to be a bit of say sean thank you very much many of the fuss of the burning and cross new south wales on in the queensland and western australia on tuesday have been a what i call emergency level that means our forces have been telling people that

at that point it's too late to leave their homes they. to hunker down and wait for what's called the fire front to pass over them because if they try and escape if they try to get in the quality trouble they put themselves right to risk is the 1st time this much of australia has been under what lead called i can't stop it level of danger and it won't be for some hours before we know where the lives being lost . the former president of bolivia able moralities says left the country to seek asylum in mexico but his flight's been diverted to paraguayan he resigned on sunday after weeks of protests following his to speciate reelection more news on the web site al jazeera dot com i will have a quick summary for you in about 25 minutes between now and then here on al-jazeera it's the caliph but i found for.

the caliph. a form of rule in a slam. that lasted for almost 13 centuries. from the death of the prophet muhammad. to the overthrow of the last ottoman caliph in 1924. the arabic 10 to 28th 25 which actually in essence simply means a successor or a identity. the ruler of the islamic world would call himself confederacy would have no successor goldsmiths and. through the centuries. the title of caliph is a term that has been used. and the time of use. in june 2004 to. a militant group calling itself the islam ecstacy in iraq

in the event or i so. declared the establishment of a kind of. a call rejected by most muslims around the world. meisel took root and expanded in iraq and syria. 2 countries flung into violence by the political turmoil and foreign intervention of recent years. the turmoil revived sectarian differences the goldbach of 10 centuries between sunni and shia almost. the you don't look at them as us yes you're nuts and if you look at the. did he end up so i just miss not talking for all to send it all took is a certain element of it that the public i'm not you know as a human you know. this is the story of the great

split within islam. of how the split a role is from a dispute of who should succeed the prophet. this is the story of the common.

the mosque. outside mecca and saudi arabia. it was here in the year 622 that a delegation from the town of medina made by on a pledge of support and shelter to the prophet muhammad. shortly after he left mecca. and mcgrady to medina with a group of followers. over the next 10 years muhammad built the 1st islamic state.

but in june 6th 32. the prophet died and his capital medina. leaving the young state without a leader. as a tradition says that the muslims on that day were like sheep on a rainy night they were frightened and huddling together and it's not clear whether or not the prophet had made any plans for his succession. within hours of the prophet's death senior figures in the most and community came to. other to choose a successor to the prophet a caliph. the debate was long and intense. it was the emigrants from mecca was.

because he was chosen to be the 1st caliph in islam. and it was so with that i will leave him alone what about the last one. the any one that of any and with no well home. min the value to him and how there was. but though they were from his tribe. the immigrants were from the prophet's close family the hashemites. the descendants of muhammad's great grandfather passion. at that time in arab society the family was understood as a much larger unit collateral lines uncles brothers cousins

and so long all considered to be part of the clan. senior among the harsher minds. muhammad's cousin husband of his one surviving don't fall to mother and father of the prophet's only living grandson. and the same. but when the decision to choose the caliph was taken i was busy elsewhere. at the time of the prophet's death we know that he was ali who was in charge of the payroll arrangements. as a jew to full respectful son and all cousin with caring for the prophet's body. the next day in the medina mosque i walk was given by on the oath of allegiance

by the majority of the muslim community. ali however was not one of them. what happened that day which saw the seeds of a political divide that would gradually evolve. into a deep religious because. the division of a slam. into soon and she. if you ask a sunni or shia muslim about that moment of mohammed's death and the decision about the leadership you will get 2 very different aunts as the sunnies suggest that he hadn't actually made any clear plans for his succession eyes death the shia would say that he had and that he was to be succeeded by his 1st cousin and son in law ali. 3 months before his death.

the prophet muhammad made a famous speech here and he had the home. an ancient resting place on the route from mecca to medina. a speech that has been interpreted ever since in 2 very different ways. all people of forms whoever i've been mustered. island he has to be his master. or. be the support of whoever supports him. and then enemies of whoever opposes him . and they felt that through time. there's this moment where if your silly you believe the prophet. gave alli the leadership of his family if. you believe he gave the leadership of the family but also the whole community.

the prophet speech is celebrated by sharon to this day and. each year a feast is held on the anniversary. to commemorate what she see as muhammad appointing ali to be his successor. but the mainstream majority the sunnis have no such friess. and no doubts about the legitimacy of a buck and the caliphs who succeeded him. shortly after becoming calif. i will buck faced his 1st major challenge a tribal revolt against the islamic state. in

this moment of peril ali chose unity over division and gave the oath of allegiance to the kind of. and the man. back that caffeine limited that in more i e n a says shell i'm ok send it in. for the miss anna. that she handed him a slot in muslimeen. the hoofy and he said the sun harbor will walk a fee was she had a kettle and the kind of slam and the hole. at the bottom. of a box room last a just 2 years. as he lay dying he nominated almost as a successor.

10 years later and 644. almost the 2nd caliph. was assassinated. while leading don't prayers in medina. on his deathbed he dictated how successor should be chosen. 6 of the closest companions of the prophet including ali would come 1st together and choose one amongst. the 4 days of deliberation last month was named the 3rd caliph. once again ali had not been chosen. passed over by abu bakar. and then for him the man when he's. in favor of.

the new caliph came from a family of the christ tribe called the or my us. the founder always coveted the leadership of christ. standing in his way was his uncle hashem the patriarch of the hashemites. this rivalry that put fester through the centuries. how that's roots in mecca decades earlier. in the pagan years before the birth of the slack. in the year 610. in this cave outside mecca muhammad received the

1st revelation verses of the koran which set him on the path of prophecy. the emergence of a prophet among the hashemites antagonize the oh my it's. and their leader abu sufyan. and. another now been as a bin man. and them a lot of guy with a muscle. when a noble one of them and i know. for 12 years the maids led a campaign of persecution against muhammad and his followers in mecca. persecution which culminated in their emigration to medina and $622.00. but when the prophet returned to conquer america. and realized resistance was

futile and joined slammed. by 644. the rising islamic state had expanded into a vast empire. and the caliphate that come into the hands of an almighty. off mine. with men was a genius but he employed far too many of his young cousins to me odds where they are stick rat of mecca and they'd been great leaders the pagan resistance and soap or making these characters who were his lovely cousins was also you know a bad political position. a rebellion erupted against off man's alleged nepotism. in 656. and after 12 years as kind of. he was killed and his house

in medina. by the un has. a sufficient lead what was at that in and the nest a half of that in a how when and. how and when i can buy that that it was had to and i must the hutton islamiyah the wily and yes the. well the yahoo. and saddam. almost a quarter of a century after the death of the prophets. the hashemites ali finally became the 4th caliph. who are bashed out of the cellar and while i was there when i learned the n.r.a. you knew me about it with a mind of enough than you that a problem. was in my been abused.

a sham. many of us moms relatives were hostile it's all his leadership i'm always demanded that all the 100 of the killers. the dispute quickly escalate. to strengthen his position i removed the capital from medina to his own power base in kuwait from iraq. the islamic state was now divided into. the east under a hush in my calif and the why. just under an almighty gov. mission and that was some benefit in which to me and she out here on the. she out it was it will net you you know enough and that can limit she couldn't

doubt and if you did that look meant that more had died then you were in them econet had booted his ship for dead what is it. in 657. ali marched his army into syria to crush us mutiny. after days of bloody skirmishes and on the last day of the battle. the army of malia was on the 1st shock defeat. in my mind and i'm also that famous malia. malia. and then it can. kind of ingestion of i don't. know who was. kind of stocks in another to have got to look out of water when the

who had the well i can hold a company that well that it can cull out it's. little enough. to know who. cover the month's achin night at the home a month at the time they have got to be met and then the. dissidents from mali's army how it is fixed on the roof this way to bring an end to the struggle. the moment it was chosen fresh dawn prayers of the 27th of january 661. the 17th day of the holy month of ramadan. 3 assassins made their way to 3 different places to file for. damascus for malia and for start in egypt from.

the last saw the film the office look at the wall of the sofa and saw the finale of the horse that he could deal with teddy especially the one on one edge. the. not just in iraq. a holy place to she almost say. they believe is buried here. for them he is more than a colorful. he has an immense. imbued with religious authority that could be passed on only through his bloodline. so when i least that the caliphate passed to his older son. but he would not

be long in the post. can adjust them to 15 hour day care and no lame cool in iraq. adroit there's a lot while we have there's a lot of media with the car hyla and yet the nazareth has an even highly and he would kill a very well camera hasa and. one at the as john our. human. form. the mask us 13 centuries ago the my capital. though the caliphate remained in the christ tribe. it had passed from the hashemites to oh my yes. and there it would remain for the coming century.

the crunch point really comes late in the armies reign when he designated his son. as his successor and this was a real touch point for generating controversy and opposition. is each succession on the death of ma we are in 6 or 8. triggered the series of events that resonate to this day. in a defiant show of opposition hossein younger son of ali refused to pledge allegiance to his ear and set off towards mecca on pilgrimage. on the way. he began to receive messages asking him to come to iraq.

where his supporters plan to install a scholar. he gathered together his family and decided to move to confront his father's. former capital. unfortunately for saying his plan got severe myatt governor of iraq and he was able to block his route to the city of kuta and so hussein was trapped without substantial military support at a place called tabbouleh. and it was. in october $618.00 that hussien and his small band of supporters met their bloody fate. in makati team. in middle of folly when the. hammer to.

yanni and the math will. be measured. he and his entourage many of his family were massacred and his head was sent to his eat in damascus. each year on the anniversary of the battle of karbala. around the world marked the event and public displays of penitence. extending sometimes even to ritual self punishment. to atone for their forebears failure to support that hossein. it's really seen as the great tragedy of his law from the she respective this is the vic the great disaster is that the prophets family didn't get to take caliphate into leeds muslims.

but 70 years after karbala. the revolt would finally succeed in bringing the caliphate back to the family of the prophet. the hotshots. this december make the heroes of europe asia africa the middle east oceania. to a stage played for legends make connections makes a mistake peak for the on becoming the world's best city excite will be sure to say i want to be. this peace. maker that's a good goal. a career doomsday cult is good hundreds of followers to a tropical paradise i've won i won a steam vest to gates the secretive sect accused of abuse and violence in fiji. on

al-jazeera. he said i'll be in doha the top stories on al-jazeera at least 3 people have been killed in israeli airstrikes in gaza funerals have been held for a palestinian islamic jihad commander and his wife who died in an israeli air strike on their home in gaza overnight israeli airstrikes have also hit apartment buildings and a hamas facility in gaza. the israeli military says around 50 rockets were fired from gaza prompting the closure of schools and some transport services video released by the roads authority shows what appears to be a rocket exploding on a busy highway israeli warplanes meanwhile are fired missiles towards damascus into the neighborhood of mazhar to hit

a house belonging to another commander of islamic jihad it's unclear what happened to him but his son granddaughter had been killed matheson has more from west jerusalem. the situation is very significant also because this is the 1st time since the end of the gaza war in 2014 that israel has used a targeted attack on such a senior figure it has carried out targeted attacks on other individuals but not at this level of seniority the police in hong kong have been firing tear gas and a gauging in running battles with protesters across several parts of the city anti-government demonstrators set up barricades paralyzing streets and public transport a large area of eastern australia has been given one of the country's most serious bushfire warnings the sydney region has been given a catastrophic danger level for the 1st time winds and dry conditions are helping the flames to spread under the sorts of conditions there is

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southern jordan. in the 8th century it was a settlement of one of the 2 major branches of the hashemites. the prophet's own family of the christ tribe. known as a bus its these were descendants of and. one of muhammad uncles the other branch where the eyelets descended from. the prophet's cousin and son in law . in 716 abdulla one of the eyelets arrived in and how my name

a with a strange story. had i thought any been and we thought it. maharat i listen to such informally saleman up to many of them at a who had the. wealthy i would if he ill medina you know what i shall be modeled. some on the castle a not. up to luddite and my mom. but in his final hours he confessed to his our basset cousin muhammad that he was the head of a plot to topple my. boss not a do. is be a living i'm a little luck of and the only min and hashimi in the living into someone that even i be part of in a. home a limb you really know me and i'm going to. walk in them i live in anyway i'm gonna

shout and our own free b. day live we have. the monument. over the next 30 years this message persuaded many islet shias to join the opposite cause. in 746. the secret movement turned into full blown revolution in the eastern part of the islamic empire and what is today the shia state of iran. it's very very hard to say whether the abbasids used the attic. they certainly wanted to accrue as wide a support base as they possibly could and they were sent me wanted those who supported it and cayle if to join them means meant.

within 3 years the opposites had captured coup for the calif. the capital of ali. it was in this mosque that the name and identity of the caliph in waiting were finally revealed. they proclaimed a man a scale if called abu allah sufiah and he was a descendant of one of the prophet mohammed's uncles and he based his claim to the caliphate on that kinship with the prophet mohammed. and 750. bastards entered damascus the capital of the mighty mighty it states. the largest empire yet no. but in the years to come they would struggle to maintain the unity of the vast state they now controlled.

by the mid century yeah busted said seize control of the caliphate but did little for their cousins. a sense of betrayal to coal and fermented among the islands. in a bold and dangerous move they declare the rival caliphate in medina. and i busted army was rushed to the city. its roof to sleep crush the rebellion. in the midst of the but he ordered it up but she knew of it and. of the moment he let the son of

a. and they had let the corn up in a little a minute the libby. as she had been at low enough she. the sun now bassett's consolidated their dominance of the center of the state from their newly built capital but that. but they had failed to exert the same control over the provinces of the far west. in 756 and homemade fugitive prince called abdulrahman reached under new c.e.o. . only

6 years after the collapse of his grandfather's caliph and. he succeeded in reviving you in my youth in a state with coat of as its capital. and i'm up as a moment over that will send to them what you want to be done is not a hold of the defense if you must come up obviously done on your own don't you know another. one of the simpleton i felt when i was on the other have you not enough of a club doesn't fit out of that is that me or the dolphin and that was. the old maid and the written under the sea was the 1st to break from the caliph it. but it would not be the last. world.

soon another states at the western edge of the muslim world and the market would break away from the a bus routes. and this time it would be their own cousins the islets. but at the canal of the sort i don't know if. and when that it must look in the event i don't because they don't have enough of it after i took. a lesson on how do you know and the hole you. had. in 788 into the east and fugitive arrived here in the moroccan city of my will a that he said whom. a city that now carries his name.

recognizing him as a descendant of the prophet. local burma tribes were quick to offer him their oath of allegiance as ruler of the region. and so was born the at the recent emirates the 1st independent state. that is how. you'll get until he. sold out of myself. what. if. i did and the rules. then added that he would have money. but with a new and expanding state just 3 years old it beasts. he was laid to rest here in the city that still bears his name.

legibly been poisoned on the orders of harun al-rashid. the most famous soviet bus caliphs. the statue of shah e r and shot i said in back that. the 2 main characters of a 1001 nights. legendary stories inspired by the opulence of harun al-rashid scored. the golden age of the a bus in calif it. but that a spot that you know to do nia and then who had it in that you know.

that that. with a few. 100 sea island the bad island one of that excitement. under the. scholars began the great task of transcribing and translating the cultural and scientific works of former civilizations. encouraged and supported by the ambassador calif so. muslims began adding their own scholarship to the stock of human knowledge. laying the groundwork for europe's run assaults and centuries to come. in siena or the west gnosis and the center had written not only philosophical texts but also

a very important treatise and medicine was transferred into latin became the standard textbook for european medical schools for centuries. but the golden age of their bus its was destined to be short lived. in 836 the 8th a bus that kind of. moved this capital here to some era in iraq. it was also to be a military base for the caliphs new army. an army of turkic mercenaries. toughened by life on the steps of central asia. an army. that would soon erode the power of the caliphs. but that i'm certain i will be yet died she and she and i mustn't and it all more

if we don't and i better see how you like that martha sim milat that iraq was wow home. and know when at 80. 847 here and some era turkic army commanders installed and moto a kill as the 10th of a bassett calif to the. you're. and for a century to come. they would effectively root the caliphate. appointing deposing top. cheering and even killing a string of 12 caliphs who are little more than puppets. yanni. it's me was sherry at the county. of us but you know what's even worse what.

the caliphate really had become a symbol and we had no effective power anymore and in the muslim world we had a motive of different political regimes in the various reaching from the us today spain to this up asian continent often this period is seen as a period of decline because of these political divisions. but it wasn't just a matter of the slow fracturing of the state. as its western edge and new threat was on the rise. match day yet. this small town on the 2 newseum coast would soon emerge as the seat of a rival caliphate. and this new caliph would not be sunny. but shia.

iran heartland of shia islam in the modern world. today she make up around 15 percent of the global muslim population of more than one and a half 1000000. in their belief it is the title of eman and not calif that confers the right to rule. the vast majority of shia in the world are known as 12 years. they follow a hear read a terry line of 12 e.-man descended from the prophet's cousin and his wife fatimah the prophet's daughter. a line ending with the last eman al maddy. the 12 are shii belief homes that are maddy

disappeared in some era and 874. he will reemerge at the end of the world as the ultimate savior of mankind. and you know sharon is benny in the mimic them a human being has shia. militia it was he the clue to look. here with us he should lead it at a shrewd maneuver that he for people to whom it may mean body. were bit dirty feet in a hoodie in. for the better will. be well a shirt with a t.v. . but this holy commandment was no protection against a deep divide the belief. of cause him a mosque that. the shrine of the man who mocks the vision of she

has him into 2 strands. it is the tomb of the 7th of the 12 years in man's. cause him who died here in the year 71009. others however dispute his status. they consider the real 70 man to be his brother is my. they came to be known as is my. the 12. which additionally. not interested or did not strive to take political power because they believed that they were waiting for the return of the man the so that at that point the righteous rizzi would be consoled and anything in between you have risen to rule and in the flesh.

but for the ismaili shia. there was to be no waiting for the return of the man. by the late 9th century. there preaching the taken root among the berber tribes in north africa. a new movement was on the rise. with this roots firmly in the shia tradition. i'll add. that. i have. all i've been a couldn't. come off. yet again for assess how dekha vet what are you mad. but the. whole what. you know. in the year 900 the 9 in cairo on tunisia. by the law

a man claimed to be a descendant of this my was declared the caliph of the 1st ever shiite caliphate. it would be known as the phantom and after the fall to my daughter of the prophet muhammad. an ancestor of all the men. the concept of the ismaili caliphate is completely different from the opposite kind of thing because of the claim to divine inspiration and divine guidance which the thought put forward they certainly developed institution which was directly completely different from the of. the fatah meds now began to expand their state westwards into the most of it.

but this would lead to a clash with another major muslim power. and soon the islamic world would find itself in a surreal position. yeah . by 912 they were made emirates and under the sea i was over a century and a half old. ruled from cordoba by the 8th m.e.u. obdurate among the 3rd. after crossing all rebellions. and uniting under the sea and he looked towards expanding southwards across the

mediterranean. yes starvation until the fighting the caliphate what is now the news you. meant a big threat for them i yes terms of the political control of the body but it is that existed in india. to strengthen his position. in 129. abdurrahman declared the undersea an emirate an independent almighty caliphate. 3 centuries on from the founding of the title the islamic world was now divided between 3 colors to sony and one. the ultimate result of that really was a decline in the value put on the notion of the caliphate itself so it leads to

rifts politically speaking within the community as well as the religious differences that these different caliphate sic know. and that the suffering of the a bastard caliphs continued under turkish military domination. but by the mid 10th century a new force had emerged. the boy or. a persian then a city. but an end to turkey control of a caliphate. but all boy one home shia one my baloch i. live and all that will live though are shia in a manner that i'm old and look at the american on

a well known lovable and of the i have the sunni when i'm out in the gym going to look at the area. we're still what's to come for the our bassett's. and $969.00 a phantom it on me captured egypt. 3 years later the forefront the macallan and moyes abandoned his capital. in tunisia and headed east. for the next 2 centuries the newly built city of cairo which served as the seat of the shah kind of. the fatah it's considered back caliphate universal so ideally they wanted to expand that palace from their original base in north africa back into each it on into syria and ultimately to encompass the whole islamic well they weren't able to

achieve that and will instead happened in the 10th century was the islamic world became divided between a number of different caliphates. meanwhile in the west. a storm was gathering. christians uniting under the banner of the cross. were looking eastward to conquer the holy lands. the approaching struggle could not have come at a worse time for a divided muslim world. and for the caliphs were at their weakest point as they turned to face the crusades.

a story 1400 years in the making. a story of succession and leadership. and jazzy and tells the story of my decline of dentist and the end of an empire. of the caliph of the sold 3.

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