PART THREE: HUSSEIN
Chapter 12
The hand that slipped the fatal powder: Madelung,
Succession to Muhammad cites several early
historians, both Sunni and Shia, on Jaada’s role,
noting that al-Tabari suppressed the incident for
political reasons.
“a woman who poisons her husband?”: Madelung,
Succession to Muhammad, citing al-Baladhuri,
Ansab al-Ashraf (Lineage of the Nobles).
“never any subject I wished closed”: Abbott, Aisha,
citing Ibn al-Jawzi, Tahqiq, twelfth-century Sunni
collection of hadith.
“your death as the most infamous act of Ali”: Abbott,
Aisha, citing Ibn al-Athir’s thirteenth-century Al
Kamil fi al-Tarikh (The Complete History).Chapter 13
A vast cycle of taziya: Most of the taziya Passion plays