After the Prophet

By: Lesley Hazleton

ISBN-13: 9780385523943
ISBN-10: 0385523947
Publisher: Anchor
Published date: 2010
A narrative history of the origins of the Shia and Sunni conflict describes how a seventh-century struggle between the supporters of the late Muhammad’s surviving family members erupted in a massacre at Karbala that would become a central component of Shia Islam.