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

Author: Lesley Hazleto
Publisher: Doubleday
Keywords: split, islam, sunni, shia, epic, story, prophet
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0385523939
ISBN-13: 9780385523936

Book Description Narrative history at its most compelling, After the Prophet relates the dramatic tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between Shia and Sunni Islam. Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over his successor had begun. Pitting the family of his favorite wife, the controversial Aisha, against supporters of his son-in-law, the philosopher-warrior Ali, the struggle would reach its breaking point fifty years later in Iraq, when soldiers of the first Sunni dynasty massacred seventy-two warriors led by Muhammad’s grandson Hussein at Karbala. Hussein’s agonizing

Author: Wael B. Hallaq
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: sunni, usul, fiqh, introduction, theories, islamic, legal, history
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $38.99
ISBN-10: 0521599865
ISBN-13: 9780521599863

Wael B. Hallaq is already established as one of the most eminent scholars in the field of Islamic law. In his latest book, he traces the history of Islamic legal theory from its beginnings until the modern period. The book is the first of its kind in organization, approach to the subject, and critical apparatus, and as such will be an essential tool for the understanding of Islamic legal theory in particular and Islamic law in general. Its accessibility of language and style guarantees it a readership among students and scholars, as well as anyone interested in Islam and its evolution.Book Des

Author: Christopher Melchert
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: law, islamic, society, studies, centuries, schools, formation, sunni
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1997-11-01
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 9004109528
ISBN-13: 9789004109520

The Sunni schools of law are named for jurisprudents of the 8th and 9th centuries, but they did not actually function so early. The main division at that time was rather between adherents of ra’y and hadith. The schools had no regular means of forming students. Relying mainly on biographical dictionaries, this study traces the constitutive elements of the classical schools and finds that they came together in the early 10th-century, particularly with the work of Ibn Survaj (d. 306/918), al-Khallal (d. 311/923), and a series of hanafi teachers ending with al-Karkhi (d. 340/952). Malikism

Authors:Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo,
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: changemakers, rulebreakers, innovators, playbook, gamestorming
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-04-19
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0596804172
ISBN-13: 9780596804176

Great things don’t happen in a vacuum. But creating an environment for creative thinking and innovation can be a daunting challenge. How can you make it happen at your company? The answer may surprise you: gamestorming. This book includes more than 80 games to help you break down barriers, communicate better, and generate new ideas, insights, and strategies. The authors have identified tools and techniques from some of the world’s most innovative professionals, whose teams collaborate and make great things happen. This book is the result: a unique collection of games that encourage engage