Islam

A messianist religion that affirms that Muhammad was the last prophet of God, bringing with himself the word of God verbatim, the ultimate revelation, known as the Quran. On Earth, the prophet formed a caliphate which was meant to aid in the spread of Islam throughout the world. Upon its final compilation by the third caliph, Uthman, the Quran was preached by two converted henads, Hinn and Binn, the mother and father of all jinn, to the elmarians, edenites and morninglanders. Various magical scrolls were given to the peoples in the three facets so that they could receive messages from the caliph, who would communicate with them through various scrolls of his own. Here follows a listing of the various islamic denominations.

## Sunni Islam

An islamic denomination which affirms that the caliphate should be ruled by those elected by the companions of the prophet and their successors chosen by those elected, the Sahaba. Given that the mirrors were made when Uthman, a sunni muslim, was caliph, all of them were once under the possession of sunnis. Multiple mirrors were first destroyed by the ibadi during the event of Ali's death, with others being stolen in the process. Only a few remained under sunni possession after this and of those, only one survived to the second millenium: the Last Mirror. While the Last Mirror would sometimes fall into the possession of shias, it stayed in sunni hands up until 1924, when King George V of Britain earned it for himself through right of conquest and declared the ending of the sunni caliphate. There have been many attempts to reinstall the caliphate by stealing the Last Mirror back, but most sunnis just expect the Mahdi to come with a mirror of his own and reform the caliphate around himself. Some have proposed the theft of shia mirrors, but these are generally seen as tarnished artifacts and their respective counterparts in other facets are in shia hands too. The four sunni schools of thoughts differ primarily on the way they ponder over the concept of Ijma, which is the idea that the muslim faithful majority is divinely endowed with infallibility in matters of faith due to the natural effects of the Quran in human reasoning.

### Maliki Islam

A sunni school of thought which believes that Ijma is actually restricted to the first four caliphs and those they approved of, with any sort of symbolical continuity of Ijma stemming from the perpetuation of their teachings. Unexplored, modern questions are normally left to be guarded by the standards of local tradition.

### Hanbali Islam

A sunni school of thought which believes in the continuity of Ijma through muslim rulers.

### Hanafi Islam

A sunni school of though which believes in the continuity of Ijma through sunni philosophers.

### Shafii Islam

A sunni school of thought which believes in the continuity of Ijma through the laity and clergy insofar as they reject the hanafi exaltation of philosophy, the hanbali exaltation of tyrants and the maliki exaltation of local traditions. Shafii is nowadays seen as a sort of fourth, free option for those not in line with the other three.

## Shia Islam

Islamic denominations which affirm that the caliphate should be ruled by Ali's bloodline in the form of an institution known as the Imamate, with the only shia caliph to rule and the first of many Great Imams being Ali himself. They first attained mirrors of their own, which they used to spread the Imamate to other facets, in the event of the death of Ali and the chaos that followed it. Each shia sect claims to have at least one mirror is in their direct or indirect possession.

### Kaysani Islam

A shia denomination which affirms that Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, a third son of Ali, is the fourth and last Great Imam as well as the Mahdi in present occultation. Hanafiyyah possessed one of the mirrors, but it has since vanished with him.

### Zaydi Islam

A shia denomination which affirms that Zayd, not his brother, was the fifth Great Imam, being succeeded by a continuous line of yemeni Great Imams up to 1968, when the last mirror under their posession was destroyed.

### Twelver Islam

A shia denomination which affirms that Musa, not Ismail, was the seventh Great Imam, with the last Great Imam being the twelfth, Muhammad the Mahdi, who is presently believed to be in occultation with the last remaining mirror of the denomination.

### Fathi Islam

A shia denomination which affirms that Aftah, not Musa or Ismail, was the seventh Great Imam, with his death two months after his father's causing the Imamate to enter an extended period of darkness which will only end with the coming of the eighth Great Imam, the Mahdi. The only mirror in possession of fathites was the one in the hands of Aftah during his last days.

### Ismaili Islam

A shia denomination which affirms that Ismail, not Musa or Aftah, was the seventh Great Imam.

#### Waqifi Islam

A shia sect which affirms that Ismail did not die before his father Sadiq did, but was actually the Mahdi, entering into occultation before becoming a Great Imam himself. The first waqifis emerged in rejection of Ismail's son and stole a few mirrors from him, all of which were later destroyed by the qarmatians.

#### Qarmatianism

A shia sect which affirms that Ismail did die before his father Sadiq did, but that his son, Muhammad Ibn Ismail, was the Mahdi. The qarmatians first emerged after the mysterious circumstance around the Great Imam's death started sprouting theories about occultation. Once a distant descendant of Ibn Ismail came forth and clarified the situation of the Imamate, inaugurating the line followed by the three next sects, rejecting the idea that the Great Imam was the Mahdi, the qarmatians violently reacted by stealing many, though not all, of their mirrors. They later also managed to destroy the mirrors of the waqifis, an action motivated by their rejection of their Mahdi.

#### Hafizi Islam

A shia sect which affirms that Mustali, not Nizar, was the true successor of Mustansir, a successor of Ibn Ismail. Mustali kept most of his mirrors during the dispute, but one managed to be stolen by the early nizaris. In distinction to the tayyibi, the hafizi believe that Hafiz, the second son of Mustali, was the successor of his older brother Amir after he died, given that the heir was the baby, regentless Tayyib. All mirrors on the possession of Hafiz by the end of his life were eventually destroyed with the death of his last successor. Ever since then, the hafizi claim to be under an age of darkness before the coming of the Mahdi.

#### Tayyibi Islam

A shia sect which affirms that Mustali, not Nizar, was the true successor of Mustansir, a successor of Ibn Ismail. Mustali kept most of his mirrors during the dispute, but one managed to be stolen by the early nizaris. In distinction to the hafizi, the tayyibi believe that Tayyib was the true successor of Amir as well as the Mahdi, hiding into occultation with his self-proclaimed tutor and a stolen mirror from Hafiz.

#### Nizari Islam

A shia sect which affirms that Nizar, not Mustali, was the true successor of Mustansir. Nizar managed to keep one mirror with him and used it to dispute Mustali's and his successor's claims to the Imamate. This mirror is still in possession of his living successor, the Great Imam Aga Khan IV.

## Mutazilism

An islamic denomination which affirms that the Quran, the word of God, is part of creation, not an uncreated extension of God's wisdom. The mutazilites were never in possession of any of the mirrors. They do not reject hadiths in general.

## Murji Islam

An islamic denomination which affirms that only God can judge and kill someone as an apostate. The murjiites were never in possession of any of the mirrors. They do not reject hadiths in general.

## Ibadi Islam

An islamic denomination which affirms that Ali, the fifth caliph, lost his right to caliphate and thus caused its end. The ibadi muslims were never in possession of any of the mirrors and actively participated in the destruction of most of them in the event of the death of Ali. They do not reject hadiths in general.

## Ahmadism

An islamic denomination which affirms that Mizra Ghulam Ahmad is the second coming of Jesus Christ. The Ahmadiyya muslims were never in possession of any of the mirrors.

## Quranism

An islamic denomination which affirms that the Quran alone must be followed, to the detriment of hadiths and other religious traditions that may seem to reinterpret scripture. The quranists were never in possession of any of the mirrors.