Jinnah, the Shia

Jinnah's family was Ismaili Shia, and he followed Twelver Shia beliefs early on in his life. However, many people say that Jinnah converted to Sunni Islam some time in his life. Today in Pakistan there is still people debating Jinnah's religious inclinations.

But let's say Jinnah was undeniably a Shia, would he still rise to prominence? Jinnah, when he was in Congress, was called the "Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity". If Jinnah was undoubtedly a Shia would people in the Muslim League call him the "Ambassador of Sunni-Shia unity"?
 

CaliGuy

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Jinnah's family was Ismaili Shia, and he followed Twelver Shia beliefs early on in his life. However, many people say that Jinnah converted to Sunni Islam some time in his life. Today in Pakistan there is still people debating Jinnah's religious inclinations.

But let's say Jinnah was undeniably a Shia, would he still rise to prominence? Jinnah, when he was in Congress, was called the "Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity". If Jinnah was undoubtedly a Shia would people in the Muslim League call him the "Ambassador of Sunni-Shia unity"?
Well, how hostile were Sunni-Shiite relations in British India?
 

CaliGuy

Banned
A lot of people in the AIML taught that Jinnah was a Shia and yet they let him become their leader anyway.
If so, it might not make much of a difference.

Indeed, the main effect of this could be to make sectarian relations in Pakistan in our TL somewhat better. :)
 
If so, it might not make much of a difference.

Indeed, the main effect of this could be to make sectarian relations in Pakistan in our TL somewhat better. :)

I don't think so. Unfortunately, there's the fact that Pakistan (and much of the Islamic world today) is much more fundamentalist than it was in the 1940's.
 
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