After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
faith. The image of Othman’s blood-stained Quran was still fresh in the men’s memory; they were not abou ...
arbitration. “Do not forget that I forbade you this,” he told his men. “This will only demolish stren ...
chapter 11 A DISPIRITED IRAQI ARMY FOLLOWED ALI ON THE LONG JOURNEY back to Kufa. Many of the men ...
Wahhabi sect that today holds sway in Saudi Arabia and is the ideological backbone of Sunni extremism. ...
“Those words are true,” Ali countered, “but you twist them and use them to mean something false.” It was th ...
God’s cause” in Sura 9 of the Quran, which is aptly titled “Repentance.” They had seen the light and r ...
the farmer replied, even as he trembled in fear, for it was clear that a refusal to take their side ...
farmer’s head. “His blood ɻowed like the lace of a sandal,” swore one witness. Justice ...
they saw as the purity of early Islam gathered strength in the twentieth and twenty-ɹrst centuries, not only ...
Wahb’s reply: “All of us are their killers. And all of us say: Your blood, Ali, is now halal—permitted—f ...
kept ɹghting at Siɽn—but he could not escape a growing feeling of self-loathing. He had waited twenty- ɹ ...
become its governor in reward for his work. Ali would have chosen his own chief of staʃ, the general who had so ...
not Ali but his opponent as Caliph. “I hereby conɹrm Muawiya as the true Caliph,” Amr concluded, “the heir of ...
acknowledged that he was “an inexperienced young man.” So when news came that Muawiya was plann ...
work by sound. It was thought that certain sounds under certain circumstances could kill, and it may have be ...
With such an arsenal at his disposal, one can see how Muawiya could boast that he made war on Ali without ...
at least by her own report, refused to touch meat again for the rest of her life. Ali had lost Egypt, and stil ...
Whoever places his trust in you is duped. Whoever draws you, draws a useless lot. You have ɹlled my heart ...
not inɻict mutilation on this man, for I heard the Messenger of God say, ‘Avoid mutilation, ev ...
said at the graveside. “If the Prophet sent him on a raid, the angel Gabriel rode at his right hand, and th ...
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