CRISIS OF MUSLIM HISTORY: RELIGION AND POLITICS IN EARLY ISLAM.
Publisher: ONEWORLD
Published: 2003
Place of publication: OXFORD
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 179
Description: "This new study of the Islamic tradition's earliest years presents the key events, individuals, and socio-political conditions which defined the era of the first Four Caliphs (from the death of the Prophet to that of Ali, thirty years later), and which led to the Sunni/Shi'i schism and the Crisis of Succession."--Jacket.