Zaeem Khan

this book should not be taken as a factual book, but as a fairytale or maybe a novel of sort. One thing I disliked the most was how she imagined and proposed what were people thinking 1400 years ago. She asks thought provoking questions but even then she is asking the wrong question and later answering them herself with questions and that's biggest weakness of this book, her own 2 cents but interpreted in a way that we think it's our thought. It's like when Joseph Gorden Levitt asks about elephant to Saito in movie Inception, but the thought of elephant was originated by Jospeh himself hence clocking the inception of thought. One could never assume what other person is thinking let alone people 1400 years ago. There must be pre-requisites to read this book. As the book covers almost 50+ years of time and compressed in 211 pages Lesely Hazelton's book shouldn't taken than more than a grain of salt. Most of her resources are from Shia books. I believe she being a jew left the most important part of history Abdullah bin Abas, one who was responsible for split. I could start pointing out the false and misleading facts and write it in a book. She wrote it with enthusiasm but she wrote it to mislead people, to give validation to one sect and to "educate" another with her cleverish word play. Every thing she wrote in this can be double checked and can be negated with some research, most of the stuff.