After the Prophet by Lesley Hazleton
Lesley Hazleton: The Tale of the Shia-Sunni Split
10/15/2009 at 8:00 p.m.
"The place with the oldest history in the world, Iraq, has no history at all, in a way. That's because the past is present and is now." Those are Lesley Hazleton's words. She's talking about the story of the Shia–Sunni split which is the subject of her latest book on religion and politics in the Middle East. Seattle author Hazleton says she wants to bring Western readers into this story. It's a story so alive it could have happened yesterday, even though it all went down 1400 years ago. Hazleton says this powerful story inspires people in both good ways and bad. After hearing it, the history seems vital to any attempt at understanding Iraq.Hazleton's latest book is "After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Shia–Sunni Split in Islam." Town Hall Center for Civic Life sponsored the event with Elliott Bay Book Company on September 17, 2009.
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- Lesley Hazleton
- After the Prophet
- 'Fateful Schism, Tracing the history of a religious divide that still haunts the world,' The Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2009
- Town Hall Seattle
- Elliott Bay Book Company
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