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Unity Beyond Sectarianism: The Monetary Roots of Religious Division and the Path to Unity

Unity Beyond Sectarianism: The Monetary Roots of Religious Division and the Path to Unity

Chin, Glenn

Paperback

Comparative ReligionReligion General General Sociology

ISBN13: 9798199001274
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 28 2026
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

For over fourteen centuries, the Muslim world has lived with a wound it rarely examines honestly: not theology, but money.

This book argues that the split between Sunni and Shia - and the countless sub-identities that followed - was never sustained by doctrine alone. It hardened because zakāt, waqf, diyah, mahr, and debt contracts, none of which the Qur'an ever defines in monetary terms, were pulled into currency systems controlled by competing scholars, dynasties, and legal schools. Once religious obligation became tied to coinage, religious identity became a source of economic power - and economic power is what kept sectarian lines standing long after the original disputes were settled.

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