Talk:The election of Uthman

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The article as it stands is a copyvio. It's copied from [1]. I'm going to delete it and replace it with a stub. Zora 07:01, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Done!

Rewritten. I should be cleaning house. Zora 07:34, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shia view

At the moment the article only represents the Sunni view. I will soon edit the shia view using Nahj al Balagha as a reference. --Khalid! 10:31, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

I've rewritten to make it clear what is Madelung's account and what is the Shi'a account. The Shi'a account is undeveloped and needs references.

You shouldn't just dismiss Madelung out of hand as "the Sunni account". He's spent his whole career studying Shi'a and of all the secular, academic historians, he's the one most sympathetic to the Shi'a. I'm not sure what the Sunni account of the matter would look like, but I suspect that it would differ in some crucial aspects from Madelung's account. Zora 22:02, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

The only reason i added ..."according to sunni's" was to prevent confusion that Shia's accept that Ali gave baya to Uthman. But I'm ok with the current version as it clearly shows the differnces.--Khalid! 13:35, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] References

An anon has been adding stuff to the article without references. For the Tabari cite, we need page number from the SUNY multi-volume English edition, since that's the one that readers would be consulting. The Glubb should go in the references section.

The anon added one bit re Umar's policies that had nothing to do with the election; I removed it. Zora 22:28, 2 November 2005 (UTC)