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The prophet Muhammad started Islam. Muhammad became ill in 632 and died the same year. After Muhammads death Muslim needed a new leader for their country and Islam. It was not clear who should take over from Muhammad to act as caliphs. Overall the main contenders for the caliph could be split in two groups; the Sunni (the Umyyads) which believed that the most able ruler should be leader and the shi'ites (the Abbasids). Both of the family had chances to prove themselves but which family was the better leader? The Umayyads ruled well for a while and managed to extend Arab rule to the borders of modern France and in the west and to India in the east. Although this was a good idea I felt it was not all down the Umayyads as Islam was already well established and would probably have spread anyway because of its sheer...

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