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Part Two - After Muhammad

The legacy of the death of Muhammad, and Rashidun - the age of the Four Caliphs

The prophet Muhammad peacefully established the Haj at Mecca, but he died, without naming a successor, a few months after delivering a sermon there on the egalitarian and communal philosophy behind Islam. This programme explores what happened next, with the age of the Four Caliphs.

This is a programme from the BBC World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 2002.

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28 minutes

BBC World Service Archive

BBC World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project