The heirs of Muhammad : Islam's first century and the origins of the Sunni-Shia split / Barnaby Rogerson.
[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...
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| Other title: | Heirs of the prophet Muhammad. |
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| Language: | English |
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Overlook Press,
2007.
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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.