After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
be resolved, it would not be by force. None of them would give the order to strike the ɹrst blow. ...
questions. Who struck the ɹrst blow is the last thing on anyone’s mind as every man fights for his life. ...
chapter 9 A ROAR WENT UP FROM AISHA’S FORCES AS HER CAMEL WAS LED onto the ɹeld of battle. It was a red ...
Zubayr, at the head of the foot soldiers. As the red silk ɻuttered over her armored canopy, her high voice ...
father had died in the ɹrst major battle between the Meccans and the Medinans, and she ...
trifled with. Yet even Hind had stayed in the rear during the ɹghting itself. Even she had been too m ...
be. • ... ... What Aisha saw from the height of her camel was a battle as horrific as all had feared ...
Hussein’s half brother Abbas twenty-ɹve years later at Karbala, when he became one of the great ...
god-awful messiness of combat, with men soiling themselves in fear, with the stink of guts ri ...
targeted Talha in a misguided attempt to ingratiate himself with Ali. Yet others were convinced that ...
of the way of his own ambitions, but there was never any proof. It would take Zubayr’s son many years t ...
watched through the chinks in her chain mail canopy as he too was killed. Ali’s soldiers shouted to her men to s ...
armored canopy insulate her somehow from the bloodshed? Did it dull the sounds of death? Was she deaf an ...
warrior declared, haunted by the memory of it, perhaps because once the bellowing stopped, there was silence. Ali ...
“Ali son of Abu Talib,” she said, “you have gained victory. You have put your forces to ...
killed by Muslims. “I have healed my wounds this day,” he mourned, “but I have killed my own people ...
assigned Muhammad Abu Bakr to head a military escort to take her back to Medina, together ...
Aisha accepted all this as her due, but on that long journey back to the Hijaz mountains and the shelter ...
the ultimate humiliation. And how awful to have her childlessness—no root, no branches, no leaves—thrown in ...
chapter 10 NOW, SURELY, WAS THE GOLDEN MOMENT FOR ALI, THE MOMENT he and his supporters had waited ...
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