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The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad: And the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism
Barnaby Rogerson
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Description for The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad: And the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism
Paperback. A wonderfully vivid history of Islam after Muhammad's death - and the sequel to Rogerson's acclaimed THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: HBJF; HRAX; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 336.
The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the seventh-century and establish Islam and a new civilization. That the protagonists originated from the small oasis communities of central Arabia gives their adventures, their rivalries, their loves and their achievements an additional vivacity and intimacy. So that on one hand, THE HEIRS OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD is a swaggering saga of ambition, immense achievement, self-sacrificing ... Read more
The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the seventh-century and establish Islam and a new civilization. That the protagonists originated from the small oasis communities of central Arabia gives their adventures, their rivalries, their loves and their achievements an additional vivacity and intimacy. So that on one hand, THE HEIRS OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD is a swaggering saga of ambition, immense achievement, self-sacrificing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
ABACUS United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349117577
SKU
V9780349117577
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About Barnaby Rogerson
Barnaby Rogerson is the author of the prestigious Cadogan Travel Guides to Cyprus, Morocco and (with Rose Baring) of Tunisia, as well as a history of North Africa. He is author of THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD and, forthcoming from Little, Brown in 2008, THE LAST CRUSADE.
Reviews for The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad: And the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism
THE HEIRS OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD vividly illustrates how the debates, the decisions and the sometimes bloody conflicts that resulted from trying to discern God's will in the absence of God's Prophet ultimately gave birth to the varied and wonderful trad
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A natural storyteller, [Rogerson] achieves his purpose not by viewing the first great schism of Islam ... Read more
GUARDIAN
A natural storyteller, [Rogerson] achieves his purpose not by viewing the first great schism of Islam ... Read more