After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
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chapter 12 ON THE MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 9 IN THE YEAR 680, A SMALL caravan set out from Mecca, heading fo ...
showed. His beard must have been at least ɻecked with white, his eyes and mouth etched around wi ...
banner. At ɹrst, that conɹdence had seemed justiɹed. Letter after letter had been carried across the eight h ...
Rejectionists had also planned to kill Amr in Egypt and Muawiya in Syria. But Amr had been sick that day— ...
Every word is reinterpreted in the light of sudden loss, and every policy once thought mistaken now seems ...
He was haunted by Ali’s ɹnal bequest, spoken as the poison rapidly spread through his veins. “Do not seek this ...
honored him as the grandson of the Prophet, the times called for a strong leader—a man of experience a ...
the supremacy of the greater jihad—the lifelong struggle within oneself to become the ideal Muslim—over ...
through the reigns of three Caliphs before taking his rightful place, citing the need for unity, then ...
rightful heir to Ali and so to Muhammad. He had given up the leadership of the empire, but the ...
earth methods. After ɹve years of civil war, law and order would prevail. The empire that had ...
elevated spiritual one, and it had been clear to Muawiya from the beginning which of them would ...
alive or cruciɹed or slowly hacked to pieces, limb by limb. Ziyad had a way of making himself understood, e ...
those he suspected—was as eʃective as it was ruthless. So too was his demand that people spy on one another an ...
as governor of Iraq. And just as natural that Ubaydallah prove himself very much his father’s son. With ...
the Christian holy places. Many of his most senior oɽcials were Christians, including Ibn Uth ...
caliphate? Wasn’t its claim based on the same principle of blood inheritance, as though matters of the ...
the least expected—one of Hasan’s wives, Jaada. She had married the man she thought would inherit ...
Muawiya’s governor barred the way with troops and diverted the mourners to the cemetery. The last ...
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