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The heirs of Muhammad

Islam's first century and the origins of the Sunni-Shia split

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An edition of The heirs of Muhammad (2007)

The heirs of Muhammad

Islam's first century and the origins of the Sunni-Shia split

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[In this book, the author] recounts the lives of the handful of individuals - the first four Caliphs, the Prophet's widows and the conquering generals - who led and influenced Islam after the death of Muhammad. Within this fifty-year span of conquest and empire-building, [the author] identifies the seeds of discord and civil war that destroyed the unity of Islam and traces the roots of the schism between Sunni and Shia Muslims to the rivalry of the two people who best knew and loved the Prophet: his cousin and son-in-law Ali and his wife Aisha. -Dust jacket.

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Overlook Press
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English
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Subjects

Islam, History, Islam, history

People

ʻĀʾishah (ca. 614-678), ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph (ca. 600-661), ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph (600 (ca.)-661)

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Table of Contents

List of maps -- Preface --
Introduction -- -- pt. 1 -- 1.
Medina : oasis capital of the Muslim state -- -- 2.
Ali : first disciple of the prophet -- -- 3.
Arabian soldiers of the seventh century -- -- 4.
Aisha and the other mothers of the faithful -- -- pt. 2 -- 5.
Caliph Abu Bakr and the Ridda Wars -- -- 6. The
invasion of the Holy Land and the death of the first caliph -- -- 7.
Omar and the great victories -- -- 8.
Uthman : third caliph of Islam -- -- 9.
Imam Ali : the fourth caliph -- -- 10.
Muawiya the Umayyad, Imam Hasan and Imam Husayn --
Appendix A : The political heirs of the prophet after the death of Husayn --
Appendix B : How can we know? : Aisha's legacy among the storytellers of Medina --
Key dates in political and military history for the fifty years after the death of the Prophet Mohammad, 632-83 --
Key characters in the life of the Prophet Muhammad --
Family trees of the Prophet Muhammad and the Caliphs --
Further reading --
Index.

Edition Notes

Originally published: The heirs of the prophet Muhammad. London : Little, Brown, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [396]-402) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
297.09/021
Library of Congress
BP55 .R635 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 415 p. :
Number of pages
415

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24767448M
Internet Archive
heirsofmuhammadi00roge
ISBN 10
1585678961
ISBN 13
9781585678969
LCCN
2006051520
OCLC/WorldCat
72355017

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[In this book, the author] recounts the lives of the handful of individuals - the first four Caliphs, the Prophet's widows and the conquering generals - who led and influenced Islam after the death of Muhammad. Within this fifty-year span of conquest and empire-building, [the author] identifies the seeds of discord and civil war that destroyed the unity of Islam and traces the roots of the schism between Sunni and Shia Muslims to the rivalry of the two people who best knew and loved the Prophet: his cousin and son-in-law Ali and his wife Aisha--Dust jacket.

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