Destiny Disrupted

NOTES

INTRODUCTION

1. With footnotes.

CHAPTER I

1. See Georges Roux, Ancient Iraq (New York: Penguin, 1980), p. 148.


2. Conan Doyle, for example, uses "Parthian shot" to mean "parting shot" in his
   1886 novel A Study in Scarlet.


3. The eleventh-century Persian poet Firdausi drew on this vast body of Persian leg-
   ends to write the Shahnama {The Book of Kings), an epic poem in which Kay Khos-
   row the Just figures largely.

CHAPTER 2

1. From a passage by Tabari, excerpted in The Inner journey: Views .from the Is!dmic
   Tradition, edited by William Chittick, {Sandpoint, Idaho: Morning Light Press,
   2007), p. xi.


2. Akbar Ahmed's Is!dm Today (New York and London: I. B. Tauris, 1999), p. 21,
   for excerpts from Mohammed's last sermon.

CHAPTER 3

1. Reza Asian, No god but God {New York: Random House, 2006), p. 113.


2. This is Tabari's description; an excerpt appears on page 12 of Is!dm: From the
   Prophet Mohammed to the Capture of Constantinople, a collection of documents edited
   and translated by Bernard Lewis. {New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press,
   1997).


3. The core of a document purporting to be Omar's original declaration to
   Jerusalem appears in Hugh Kennedy's The Great Arab Conquests {New York: Da Capo
   Press, 2007), pp. 91-92.

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