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Which festivals do Sunni and Shia Muslims share?
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Id al-Fitr, the festival of breaking the fast; Id al-Adha, the festival of the sacrifice; and Mawlid al-Nabi, the Prophet Muhammad's birthday.
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Which festivals does the guide list for Shia Muslims?
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Ashura, the day of martyrdom of Imam al-Husayn; Id al-Ghadir, the festival of the Prophet Muhammad's final sermon; and the birthdays of Fatima and of the imams.
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What does the Shia festival list express?
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A calendar built around the family of the Prophet — so the doctrine of imamate is expressed through the shape of the year.
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What does the guide list under gender and ritual for Islam?
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All Pillars, especially prayer — location, purity issues, dress, timing; hajj and gender; shrine visitation and gender; death rituals and gender; and separate male and female worship, with mosque attendance compulsory for men only.
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What does the guide say about halal and haram?
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That they are a means of communal identity — dietary law marking a community at every meal.
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What does the guide list under society and ritual?
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The communal and social implications of jum'a and hajj; the issue of identity and umma solidarity; halal and haram; and spiritual and mystical experience through ritual.
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Why does a lunar calendar matter for Ramadan?
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Because the month moves through the solar year, so the daylight hours fasted change from year to year — part of why the exemptions exist.
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Which practice does the guide note is opposed by Wahhabis?
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Visits to shrines and tombs, listed under popular religion and Shi'ism among the voluntary acts of worship.
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Contrast halal and haram with Jewish kashrut.
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The guide calls halal and haram a means of communal identity, and says the Jewish food laws express being set apart as a holy people — the same kind of law with two accounts of its purpose.
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