After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
control, to be sure—he had done all he could to prevent Othman’s assassination—but they were tainted ...
play his hand. He made the cool calculation that if Ali had displayed great nobility of purpose in deal ...
“How far does your cunning reach?” he once asked his top general. The proud reply—“I have never ...
He had originally been appointed governor of Syria by the second Caliph, Omar, and was then reconɹrmed by Ot ...
consolidate his position and wait patiently, and he had done so in luxury. His palace in Damascus—known as al-Kh ...
between us and our rule.” After all, why ban the nickname? The famed image of Hind crammi ...
you advise is best for this life,” he retorted. “But I will have nothing to do with such underha ...
fought the Battle of the Camel, proving his determination no matter how high the cost, but he had not ...
Instead, he made his headquarters in a modest mud- brick house alongside the mosque. There would be ...
behind, and this was entirely Muawiya’s doing. By refusing to recognize Ali as Caliph, he had forced ...
hundreds of miles from the center of power? Were they to be relegated to the status of onlookers in the ...
manipulate not just assent to war, but a demand for it. He had kept the pot simmering with the ...
cuckolds allowing this stranger to take over your nest?” she’d taunted—she had received a sword t ...
Some of these were written, or at least signed, by his cousin Walid, who was also Othman’s half brot ...
September 11, 2001. Muawiya’s declaration of war came by letter. “Ali, to each Caliph you had to be led to the ...
mountains to the north, and the silt-laden river that had eddied wide and brown at Kufa ran strong with ...
such talks: he was fully aware of Ali’s horror of civil war, and now sought ways to make this work ...
duel. “It is not ɹtting that you refuse such a challenge,” he said with the military man’s code of ...
Ali himself was nearly killed. Arrows fell so thick and fast around him that as one witness said, “his two ...
orders for each horseman to spear a single parchment sheet on the tip of his lance and then ride into ...
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