After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
sandstorm, his robe white with blown dust. Yet others that it came from the early years in Medina, w ...
the Helpers of the Prophet and to his kin,” wrote one of his Medinan supporters. “The land has become narrow for th ...
The thorns were felt immediately. Even while others lined up to pledge public allegiance to Abu Bakr ...
resistance instead, and refused to budge. Short of actually following through on his threat and killing all of M ...
hers. Soon after her miscarriage, she sent a message to Abu Bakr asking for her share of her father’s e ...
made a point of providing generously for Muhammad’s widows—and particularly for his own daughter Aisha, who re ...
funeral. She was to be buried quietly, with only her close family, the true Ahl al-Bayt, in attendance. If ...
what kind of toothpick he used to clean his teeth. The Sunnis would eventually name themselves for the ...
witness her sons’ suʃering and to weep for them. She is the Holy Mother, whose younger son would ...
Fatima to the end, but there was now, he said, a higher call on his loyalty. This was no time to h ...
then turned against the faith. Such a person was no longer protected by the Quranic ban ...
Some Sunnis would later say that Abu Bakr acted as he did to spare the community the divisiveness it h ...
course. He would appoint his successor, but appoint him on the basis of merit, not kinship. He would choose the ...
reaching out, of healing old divisions and transforming them into alliance, and with Ali, the healing imp ...
Muhammad’s estates on Ali, exactly as Fatima had wanted. Omar had now doubled his kinship to the Prophet: bo ...
eighty lashes of the whip, and refused to mourn when he died as a result of the punishment. In the ten ...
not merely stop and go at that great oasis city. They stayed for months at a time while contacts wer ...
But there was another strong incentive to keep conversion to a minimum. Omar had set up the diwan, a ...
desperation. The story has it that the slave’s owner had promised to free him but reneged on that ...
Did he take it for granted that the electors would choose Ali? Surely that was so, yet two of t ...
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