After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
political standing. Any slur on Aisha was a slur on her whole family, but especially on the two men closest to ...
out, on being exceptional, found herself standing out too much. There is no doubt that Aisha was i ...
barbed rhyming couplets acted like lances, verbal attacks all the more powerful in a society where alliance ...
the future of the new faith seemed to hang on a teenage girl’s reputation. In the meantime, he banished Aish ...
You could say it was just chance that the loss of a necklace should create such trouble. You could po ...
certainly the focus of her jealousy. Muhammad’s ɹrst wife was the one woman who, precisely because she was dea ...
her children while withholding those of other women.” There it was: Not only was Khadija the ...
chapter 3 IF THERE WAS A SINGLE PERSON WHO SEEMED DESTINED TO BE Muhammad’s successor, it was Ali, ...
while I, although I was the youngest of them, the most diseased in eyesight, the most corpulent in ...
It had been Muhammad’s own sword, given by him to Ali—bequeathed, you might say. And after he had foug ...
influence and respect than when he was alive. Muhammad seemed to recognize this the moment he heard those ...
man, whom his kinsmen had known all their lives, to suddenly declare himself the Messenger of God. ...
and insight: “I am the City of Knowledge and Ali is its gateway.” Shia scholars still relate these saying ...
realized they had the wrong man. Ali, that is, who for the space of that night stood in for Muhammad ...
Those others were the two men who would lead the challenge to Ali’s succession after Muhammad’s death: Aisha ...
grandchild, and Muhammad was clearly as doting and proud a grandfather as ever lived. He would bounce the youn ...
rival she could never conquer, while his two sons were daily reproof of her own inability to produce an hei ...
for Muhammad’s aʃection, and in such a competition, Fatima stood no chance. It became known throughout Medina ...
home in tears of shame; the insult was not only to Fatima but also to him, and, worst of ...
or Comforter whose arrival Jesus had foretold in the Gospels. Those against maintained that si ...
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