Destiny Disrupted

56 DESTINY DISRUPTED scholars to work combing out redundancies among the copies that existed, resolving discrepancies, and evalu ...

SCHISM 57 uated to take out loans from the treasury. This khalifa also appointed his relatives and "favorites" to many powerful ...

58 DESTINY DISRUPTED embraced Islam, he or she became part of the family, and so it was with the Umayyads. The Prophet thought M ...

SCHISM 59 ifa's signature to it. Poor Othman, nearly eighty at this time, might well have been easy to manipulate. In any case, ...

60 DESTINY DISRUPTED when his successor would face an impossible challenge, now the Umma was saying, "Take the reins, Ali." THE ...

SCHISM 61 But a whole new class of nouveau riche had sprung out of the compost of the Muslim conquests, and this elite was not i ...

62 DESTINY DISRUPTED the Islamic way, yet each was calling on Muslims to fight other Muslims. This wasn't what they called jihad ...

SCHISM 63 Camel, so-called because Ayesha rode a camel right into the battlefield and directed her troops from its back; the bat ...

64 DESTINY DISRUPTED with hand-to-hand combat. Ali, who was fifty-eight years old but still a fearsome physical specimen, eagerl ...

SCHISM 65 Compromising with the enemy disappointed a faction of Ali's most committed followers, and these younger, more radical ...

66 DESTINY DISRUPTED grasp the whole of it, as Mohammed had done. The Prophet's immediate successors were like the six blind men ...

5 ~ Empire of the Umayyads 40-120 AH 661-737 CE 0 F couRsE, MU' AWIYA did not present himself as the man who ended the religious ...

68 DESTINY DISRUPTED went home that night, they all knew the principle of succession would never come up for discussion again. W ...

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70 DESTINY DISRUPTED One by one, the warriors in Hussein's band sallied forth to fight Yazid's army. One by one they fell. The w ...

EMPIRE OF THE UMAYYADS 71 of respect, to be sure, but no more grandiose than, say, reverend or honor- able. After all, every tim ...

72 DESTINY DISRUPTED continuing possibility of miracle was the principle he embodied. He and his band chose death as symbolic re ...

EMPIRE OF THE UMAYYADS 73 But once Islam began to look like a juggernaut, the Umayyads con- verted, joined the Umma, and climbed ...

74 DESTINY DISRUPTED have healed the blind and raised the dead. Moses may have turned a staff into a snake and led an exodus for ...

EMPIRE OF THE UMAYYADS 75 ment, which included lavish building projects, ambitious public works, and extravagant charitable endo ...