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I read from 'There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind' by Antony Flew https://www.amazon.co.uk/There-God-Notorious-Atheist-Changed/dp/0061335304

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Very helpful sources are:
https://www.dar-al-masnavi.org/about_translator.html a website by shaykh Ibrahim Gamard about the Islamic inheritance of Rumi
An academic text about the tradition of Menevihan in Sarajevo https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003622406-12/revival-mesnevihan-sarajevo-entanglements-urban-sufism-zora-hesová

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02:20 Sunni and Shiite Demographics
08:12 Political Succession
13:34 The Third Caliph
18:45 The Fourth Caliph and Conflicts
26:48 Abdication and Unity
28:25 Doctrine of Imamate
30:43 The Twelve Imams
42:59 The Hidden Imam
45:50 Tragedy at Karbala
48:28 Other Shiite Branches
55:23 The Safavid Empire
1:00:18 Leadership of the Jurist
1:04:08 Decentralized Hierarchy
1:07:08 Meaning of Ayatollah

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Many in the West believe Iran’s political system will collapse with the Ayatollah. But they misunderstand the enduring power of the ideology behind it.

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