在历史上，1258年什叶派还和蒙古人勾结导致巴格达陷落，阿巴斯王朝末代哈里发因此丧命，穆斯林的“大一统 ” （ universal state ） — —阿巴斯王朝因此灭亡。
Was it not the case, it is claimed, that the Shia also colluded with the Mongols in the fall of Baghdad in 1258, culminating in the death of the last Abbasid caliph and the destruction of the Abbasid Empire, the “universal state” of Muslims?