After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
necks. The few yards from Aisha’s chamber to the mosque itself must have seemed an infinite ...
But Ali would hear nothing of it. “By God I will not,” he said. “If it is withheld from us, none after ...
chapter 5 NO WORDS WERE NEEDED TO CARRY THE NEWS. THE WAILING did that. First Aisha, then all the ...
Hussein. They were the outward expression of abandonment, of being abandoned and of abandoning onese ...
his lord as the prophet Moses went and was hidden from his people for forty days, returning to them after ...
“Muhammad is naught but a Messenger,” Abu Bakr declaimed. “Messengers have passed away before him. Why, if he ...
smoke-ɹlled back room, and like that back room, it was strictly by invitation only. The call went ...
his say, and at length. Few there could read or write, but their powers of oratory were phenomenal, ...
Mecca’s Quraysh tribe. While most of the Umayyads had opposed Muhammad until just two years before, Othman had ...
Ali was the one Emigrant whom the native Medinans would have freely acknowledged as their leader. They saw hi ...
To Sunnis, the shura would be the perfect example of the wisdom of consensus, of a community newly empowered to ...
Emigrants burst in, the Medinan Helpers knew that their bid to claim leadership for one of their own was doomed ...
had begun, warriors would stand tall and proclaim their lineage aloud before actually attacking each o ...
It was an argument for democracy, in however limited a form—an argument against exactly what would h ...
none of the Medinan Helpers would agree to an Umayyad as their leader, even one as respect ...
openly accused the Emigrants of working in collusion to take over the leadership. No sooner were the words o ...
The burial would be strangely hugger-mugger. It was done in haste—indeed, in secrecy—and with a matter- of-f ...
Muhammad had once said that a prophet should be buried where he had died, they explained later. Since ...
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chapter 6 IF YOU WERE A BELIEVER IN FATE, YOU MIGHT THINK THAT ALI was destined never to be Ca ...
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