Author: Barnaby Rogerson
Publisher: Overlook TP
Keywords: shia, split, sunni, origins, century, first, islam, muhammadislam, heirs
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2008-04-29
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1590200225
ISBN-13: 9781590200223

The Prophet Muhammad brought his vision of the word of God to the Arabs, and 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 with it a new civilization. The Heirs of Muhammad is a swaggering saga of ambition, achievement, self-sacrificing nobility and blood rivalry. In it, acclaimed historian Barnaby Rogerson recounts the lives of the handful of individuals--the first four Caliphs, the Prophet’s widows and the conq