After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
It is clear that Muhammad knew that he would die, if not quite yet. He had no illusions of ...
the Kaaba. This cube-shaped shrine housed numerous regional deities, many of them said to be oʃspring ...
It was an egalitarian message, as revolutionary in its time and place as that of an earlier prophet ...
had acted on his message of unity by reaching across the aisle, as it were, and welcoming many of the Mecc ...
himself to endorse the inevitable. He had put an end to intertribal warfare; he had empowered the powerless; he had ov ...
had long before made the divinely guided choice of his closest male relative—his son-in-law Ali—as his suc ...
The tension between the two surely made the air in that sickroom all the more stiɻing, yet it seemed that n ...
chapter 2 IT WAS NOT JUST ANY NECKLACE, THOUGH IT WOULD HAVE BEEN easy enough to think so, for it was ...
vivid and intimate detail. For the ɹrst hundred years of Islam, these stories lived not on the page but on th ...
Its length and detail are part and parcel of his method. He visits the same events again and again, alm ...
campaigns to unite Arabia’s tribes under the banner of Islam. These were full-scale expeditions lasting ...
where every spring was, hidden deep between clefts of rock, every place where a well had been sunk, ...
on to new feats of valor as she would do years later in the thick of battle, even as men were dying a ...
Even for someone so determined, though, ɹnding the beads took longer than she’d foreseen. In the early half ...
Instead, in her own words, “I wrapped myself in my smock and then lay down where I was, knowing that ...
dictated that girls not marry until puberty. But then again, to have been married at the custom ...
and not only get away with it but be loved for it. Muhammad seemed to have granted he ...
newly converted to Islam by marrying its leader’s daughter, a girl renowned for her beauty. ...
deputized to search for her, as she had expected. In fact the expedition sent nobody at all, since they ...
astonishment. Must have noticed how they hung back, with nobody rushing up to say, “Thanks be to God th ...
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