Lesley Hazleton is the award-winning author of several books, including After the Prophet and Mary. A former psychologist, she reported on the Middle East from Jerusalem for more than a dozen years, writing for Time, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the Nation, and Harper's, among other publications.
In this gripping narrative history, Lesley Hazleton tells the tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam, a rift that dominates the news now more than ever. Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over ...[SEE MORE]