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.
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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