{"product_id":"the-heirs-of-the-prophet-muhammad","title":"The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad","description":"The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death  his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the seventh-century and establish Islam and a new civilization. That the protagonists originated from the small oasis communities of central Arabia gives their adventures  their rivalries  their loves and their achievements an additional vivacity and intimacy. So that on one hand  THE HEIRS OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD is a swaggering saga of ambition  immense achievement  self-sacrificing nobility and blood rivalry  while on the other it allows us to understand some of the complexities of our modern world. For within this fifty-year span of conquest and empire- building  Barnaby Rogerson also identifies the seeds of discord that destroyed the unity of Islam  and traces the roots of the schism between Sunni and Shia Muslims to the rivalry of the two individuals who best knew and loved the Prophet: his cousin and son-in-law Ali and his wife Aisha.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44895572361269,"sku":"ByrdShop_0316727296","price":227.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0316727296_c93156c5-e48e-4f20-9cbc-115cb8b680c3.jpg?v=1770343187","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-heirs-of-the-prophet-muhammad","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}