After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
perhaps violence had been building so long that by now it was simply inevitable. Abu Bakr was the ɹrst ...
Marwan who both drew the sword and poisoned it. Yet others that it had all been engineered from ...
“The shirt was placed each day on the pulpit,” said a Syrian historian. “Sometimes it was draped over ...
new Commander of the Faithful when he refused to take the title of Caliph. That title had been honored by ...
enemy their enemy, they thought that divisiveness was at an end. Ali was the one who would reunite Islam. T ...
chapter 8 THE MOMENT SHE HEARD THE DOGS, AISHA KNEW IT FOR AN omen. The sound itself was familiar enough; h ...
the ɹrst time in months, doubt crept into her mind, and once there, it settled in, paralyzing her. She had ...
better than a whole world full of such people. Seek revenge for the blood of Othman, and ...
He was sheltering assassins, and that made him as guilty as the assassins themselves. It might as well have ...
rule, but that did not mean they wanted Ali to take his place. Talha and Zubayr were ambitious men ...
Basra. With Aisha in the lead, they could not fail. “You will rouse the Basrans to action, just as you ...
then were the dogs still howling? For twenty-four hours Aisha sat there by the waters of Hawab, paralyzed ...
could he condemn it. “I cannot say if Othman was killed justly or unjustly,” he said, “for he was himself unjus ...
conundrum of split loyalties, and the townspeople resented its being forced on them. They respected ...
powerless. He was seized and whipped, his hair and beard were torn out by the roots, and he was ...
split that cannot be repaired. So men, restrain yourselves. Remember that these people are your brot ...
their own sons. Fitna is the terrible wrenching apart of the fabric of society, the unraveling of the tight ...
from the Hijaz mountains. The air was dense and moist instead of bracingly dry, the blue of the sky pale wi ...
is out of balance,” he said, “and look how it turns unevenly.” But the strongest warning—the one that ...
that they could continue their negotiations in the shade. They negotiated for three whole days, and a ...
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