policies on the bureaucracy. The events of the Second Fitna intensified sectarian tendencies in Islam, and various doctrines were developed within what would later become the Sunni and Shi'a denominations of Islam.

Background

First Fitna

After the third Rashidun caliph Uthman ibn Affan's assassination by rebels in 656, the rebels and the townspeople of Medina

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