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The four caliphs

Thirty years after the Prophet

The Prophet is gone. Who leads the Muslims now?

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After the Prophet died in 632, four of his closest Companions led the Muslims, one after another. Sunni Muslims call them the Rightly Guided Caliphs. In thirty years the community grew from Arabia into an empire. And it divided.

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