UMAR IBN AL-KHATTAB AND THE FRACTURE OF AUTHORITY Power, Politics, and the Fracture of the Early Muslim Community

Author:   Sado Faraji
Publisher:   Sado Faraji
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9798233854125


Pages:   140
Publication Date:   24 December 2025
Format:   Paperback
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UMAR IBN AL-KHATTAB AND THE FRACTURE OF AUTHORITY Power, Politics, and the Fracture of the Early Muslim Community


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After the death of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, the Muslim community entered one of the most defining and difficult moments in its history. Decisions made under fear, urgency, and political pressure shaped the Caliphate - and left a fracture that Muslims have remembered differently ever since. This book explores how leadership, authority, and legitimacy developed from Saqifah to Karbala - not to inflame division, but to understand how power was constructed, challenged, and justified. Drawing from classical Sunni and Shia sources, this work examines: - Saqifah and the birth of political precedent - The Pen and Paper incident - Usama's delayed army - Abu Bakr's appointment of Umar - Umar's Shura and the engineering of succession - The rise of dynastic rule - Karbala and the moral crisis of power Rather than choosing sides, this book invites reflection: What happens when survival and justice come into conflict - and what lessons remain for today? How leadership after the Prophet reshaped faith, politics, and power.

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Author:   Sado Faraji
Publisher:   Sado Faraji
Imprint:   Sado Faraji
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.168kg
ISBN:  

9798233854125


Pages:   140
Publication Date:   24 December 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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About the Author SADO FARAJI is a visionary writer and researcher from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. His work fuses history, faith, and storytelling-bridging Islamic scholarship, cultural critique, and mythic fiction. Through novels, drama series, and scholarly works, he explores the clash of tradition and modernity, betrayal and loyalty, love and survival. His writing is ritualized-crafted to echo across generations and provoke reflection on humanity's shared destiny. Selected Works - The Djinn Prince's Pact - A Romantasy of Legacy and Whispers. - The Bridge of hope and sorrow: a Poignant tale of love and resilience.- The Spirit of Resistance: The Defiance Legacy of Mkwawa. - Shadows of the Desert: The Role of Zionism in the Birth of Saudi Arabia. - The Ink Between - When the erased refused to be silent. - The Indelible Archive - a novel of memory and Resistance - Scholarly works in Islamic history and fiqh. Vision For SADO FARAJI, every book is more than a story-it is a legacy drop, a ritual of influence, and a call to heal broken worlds. Readers are invited into a journey of myth, memory, and meaning.

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