Download or read book The Crisis of Muslim History written by Mahmoud M. Ayoub and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed yet accessible guide to the way in which religion and politics interacted during the earliest years of Islam. It focuses on the period of the first four caliphs, untangling the crisis of sucession and the subsequent schism between the Sunni and Shi'i movements in Islam, and drawing on a combination of primary documents and scholarship in the field. It includes two appendices featuring original English translations of key source material.