02085cam a22003135a 450000100090000000300060000900500170001500800410003201000170007301500190009001600180010903500230012704000230015005000100017305000210018308200120020410000230021624501010023926000290034030000400036950400510040952000130046052011180047360000320159160000560162365000200167965000360169965000360173514513827AUA.120151123114158.0060214s2006    enkab         001 0 eng d  a  2006462011  aGBA5711522bnb7 a0132789112Uk  a(OCoLC)ocm63790115  aSJDcSJDdUKMdDLC00aBP55+04aBP 55b.R64 200604a2972221 aRogerson, Barnaby.14aThe heirs of the prophet Muhammad :band the roots of the Sunni-Shia schism /cBarnaby Rogerson.  aLondon :bAbacus,c2006.  axvi, 415 p. :bill., maps ;c20 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aSummary:  a"The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad is a saga of ambition, achievement, self-sacrificing nobility and blood rivalry, and it also sheds light on some of the complexities of our modern world. For within this fifty-year span of conquest and empire-building, Barnaby Rogerson identifies the seeds of discord 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." "The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad 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. Their achievements are chronicled, but so too are the conflicting ambitions that led to civil war. So that although an empire was forged, in the process Muhammad's own family would be disinherited, his grandson murdered, the revered temple of God at Mecca, the Kaaba, burned to the ground, and the first copy of the Koran stained with the blood of a Caliph."--Jacket. 00aʻĀʼishah,dca. 614-678.00aʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib,cCaliph,dca. 600-661. 0aIslamxHistory. 0aShīʻahxRelationsxSunnites. 0aSunnitesxRelationsxShīʻah.