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Definitive and insightful, in this richly layered and engrossing account, John McHugo reveals how the great divide in Islam occurred. Charting the story of Islam from the death of the Prophet Muhammad to the present day, he describes the conflicts that raged over the succession to the Prophet, how Sunnism and Shi'ism evolved as different sects during the Abbasid caliphate, and how the rivalry between the empires of the Sunni Ottomans and Shi'i Safavids contrived to ensure that the split would co

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Author

John McHugo

Publisher

Saqi Books

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780863561634

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Islamic Sects, History

Updated

2026-03-25