After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
Othman, the pious and wealthy Umayyad who had converted early to Islam but had never actually ...
Or perhaps he too thought Othman would live only a short time. ...
chapter 7 IF OTHMAN HAD NOT BEEN BLESSED WITH GOOD GENES, MUCH blood might have gone unshed, inclu ...
the spoils from the Persian court were sent to Medina, Omar had not smiled with satisfaction as all had ...
Under Abu Bakr and Omar, Muhammad’s ethic of simplicity and egalitarianism had prevailed, but ...
became increasingly outspoken as nepotism and corruption devolved into their inevitable correlates: wrongf ...
As the governor of the garrison city of Kufa in central Iraq, Walid did not even bother to dis ...
that way when a respected Medinan elder stood up in the mosque in public support of the Iraqis’ demands, ...
Walid’s recall. He delayed giving the order, however, and balked at the demand for a ɻogging. Nobody could be f ...
among their leaders was the son of the ɹrst Caliph— Aisha’s own half brother Muhammad Abu Bakr. The boy whose ...
not that every step he took was undercut by Othman’s cousin and chief of staff, Marwan. Marwan was known ...
bed, piling all their weight on top of him until he suʃocated—an ignominious death that would ...
designed only to provoke. “What is the matter with you that you assemble as though for plunder?” he ...
the collar on you, and put you on the camel. Then we ’ll carry you oʃ to the Mount of Smoke”—the mai ...
and open conflict averted. After that stoning in the mosque, Othman had appeared truly shaken a ...
seals. One of these compartments was a secret one, however, and inside it they found a letter st ...
right to his position. Eventually, it was even rumored that it was Ali who had arranged for the letter to be p ...
avert disaster. He spent the coming days in prayer in the mosque. Aisha must have wished she could do ...
and help resolve it. If Othman had scorned her for sheltering “the rebels and scoundrels of Ira ...
did its work, as it always does. The ɹrst fatality was one of the most venerable of Muhammad’s ea ...
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