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Article: After the Prophet.(After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam)(Books)(Book review)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 18, 2009
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Byline: Husna Haq
As a child, I was roused by my father every weekend for Sunday school, held in the basement of our mosque with 50-odd unruly children. There, we were sent off to one of four cordoned-off sections of the basement where we sat on orange and blue plastic folding chairs and listened as our teacher - often an "aunty" or "uncle" from the community - lectured us on the Koran, Arabic, or - my favorite subject - stories full of hardship and triumph, the seerah, or life of our prophet Muhammad.
Those stories about Muhammad and the early years of Islam are still among my favorites, which is why I picked up Lesley Hazleton's After the Prophet: The ...