Religion has been a big topic thought out history. The Protestant Reformation took place when a young monk named Martin Luther was questioning the beliefs of the Catholic Church, and stated a new church. This resulted to argument from both sides. After Muhammad’s death, different sects in religion were made, different caliphs, and the Islamic community had a hard time deciding a successor. Islamic and Christianity are different but they have some of the same characteristics.
Both the Protestant Reformation and the community after Muhammad’s death ended up separating from the religion they once believed in and the disputes between the leaders. In the Protestant Reformation, people left the Catholic Church and converted to Lutheranism. In the Islamic community, the development of the first caliphate, the Muslims divided from Islam into sects of the Shi’ite and Sunni. Similar when the Umayyad caliphate was formed. They fled the original Islamic religion that was established by Muhammad. Both began because of religious and not agreeing with the original. The Protestant Reformation, the monk, Martin Luther protested the church’s willingness to take money for their own satisfaction. He also disagreed with the church’s beliefs, that salvation be achieved through faith alone and that it’s not through confessing sins. After the 16th century, the Protestant religion split even further. In 1520, pope publicly disapproved his teachings. In the Islamic community, the umma disagreed on the succession of the caliphate between Shi’ite and Sunni. The Sunnis believe that the Imam should be Muslim, supported the first three caliphs, and believed to create the best leader as possible for the Muslim world, leaders should be elected. The Shi’ite believed that Ali was the right person for Muhammad’s successor and Imam will always be Ali’s descendants. In 750, a rebellion in Khurasan led to the Umayyad’s