The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism BOTY_2025 **New York Times bestseller and

**New York Times bestseller and TikTok sensation Lauren Asher brings her signature heart

award-winning author of Right Where I Left You

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examining humanity’s complex relationship with the intersection between faith and nature and tracing its origins across time and culture—from the protective amulets of ancient Egypt to ceremonial magic in India

we experience the passage of time through the eyes of David Hockney

The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism BOTY_2025 **New York Times bestseller andThe authoritative account of Islam's schism that for centuries has shaped events in the Middle East and the Islamic world. In 632, soon after the Prophet Muhammad died, a struggle broke out among his followers as to who would succeed him. Most Muslims argued that the leader of Islam should be elected by the community's elite and rule as Caliph. They would later become the Sunnis. Otherswho would become known as the Shiabelieved that Muhammad had