After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
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Contents Note on Usage and Spelling Map: The Middle East in the Late Seventh Century PROLOGUE PART ONE MUHAM ...
Note on Usage and Spelling Throughout this book, I have used ɹrst names for major ɹgures rather than ...
and Omar instead of Umar) and have purposely omitted diacritical marks, using Shia rather than Shi’a, Ibn ...
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Prologue THE SHOCK WAVE WAS DEAFENING. IN THE FIRST FEW SECONDS after the blast, the millions of pilgrims wer ...
miles from Baghdad. They carried huge banners billowing above their heads as they chanted and bea ...
women of his family taken captive and chained. As word of the massacre spread, the whole of the Muslim world ...
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chapter IF THERE WAS A SINGLE MOMENT IT ALL BEGAN, IT WAS THAT OF Muhammad’s death. Even the ...
just the dawn of a new age; it was morning, the sun bright, the day full of promise. Arabia was poised ...
Aisha, his favorite wife. It was one of nine built for the wives against the eastern wall of the mosque comp ...
Outside, in the courtyard of the mosque, people were camped out, keeping vigil. They refused to believe that th ...
or another close relative instead—the eldest son was traditionally the successor if there was no ...
Most of Muhammad’s wives after Khadija did indeed have children, but not by him. With the sole exception ...
born to Muhammad after Khadija—born to Mariya the Copt, an Egyptian slave whom Muhammad had fre ...
ɹrst revelation of the Quran—and assured him that he was indeed Rasul Allah, the Messenger of God. Perhaps o ...
opening lines of the Quran—“the Recitation”—came into being. Further revelations had come steadily, and in the ...
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