British-born Lesley Hazleton is a psychologist and veteran
Middle East journalist whose work has appeared in the" New York
Times, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Harper's The Nation, New Republic, New
York Review of Books," and other publications. The author of
several acclaimed books on Middle East politics, religion, and
history, including "Jerusalem, Jerusalem "and "Mary: A
Flesh-and-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother," she now lives in
Seattle, Washington.
www.AfterTheProphet.com
Praise for "After the Prophet"
""After the Prophet" is a remarkable and respectful telling of the
story of Islam--a tale of power, intrigue, rivalry, jealousy,
assassination, manipulation, greed, and faith that would have made
Machiavelli shudder (had he read it), but above all it is a very
human story, told in a wonderfully novelistic style that puts most
other, often dreary, explanations of the Shia-Sunni divide to
shame."
--Hooman Majd, author of "The Ayatollah Begs to Differ
"
""After the Prophet" vividly re-creates the personal rivalries and
resentments that led to Islam's great schism in the immediate wake
of Muhammad's death, and makes one understand how truly
contemporary they are with our own time. Lesley Hazleton brings off
the happy effect of turning the reader into a participant in the
world she describes--a world of long memories, where the deep past
lives on in the present day, as if the Battle of Karbala in 680
A.D. was little more than an eyeblink away from the Ashura Massacre
there in 2004.
"My only regret is that Hazleton didn't write this terrific and
necessary book in time to enlighten Donald Rumsfeld, Paul
Wolfowitz, et al., before they so unwisely invaded a land, and a
religious culture, of which they were reprehensibly ignorant. I
hope they read it now, with proper rue. Meanwhile, the rest of us
can take pleasure in Hazleton's vigorously drawn characters, her
lucid storytelling, and her enthralling, imaginative grasp of the
roots and consequences of the Sunni-Shia divide."
--Jonathan Raban, author of "My Holy War" and "Surveillance"
"Lesley Hazleton succeeds in bringing out the truly epic character
of the Shia-Sunni split, telling the story with great empathy. The
general Western reader will come away from this book with a
newfound respect for the depth and power of the early schism in
Islam and of what happened at Karbala."
--Wilferd Madelung, Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of
Oxford, and author of
Praise for "After the Prophet"
“"After the Prophet" is a remarkable and respectful telling of the
story of Islam—a tale of power, intrigue, rivalry, jealousy,
assassination, manipulation, greed, and faith that would have made
Machiavelli shudder (had he read it), but above all it is a very
human story, told in a wonderfully novelistic style that puts most
other, often dreary, explanations of the Shia-Sunni divide to
shame.”
—Hooman Majd, author of "The Ayatollah Begs to Differ
"
“"After the Prophet" vividly re-creates the personal rivalries and
resentments that led to Islam’s great schism in the immediate wake
of Muhammad’s death, and makes one understand how truly
contemporary they are with our own time. Lesley Hazleton brings off
the happy effect of turning the reader into a participant in the
world she describes—a world of long memories, where the deep past
lives on in the present day, as if the Battle of Karbala in 680 A.
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