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The Sword of Medina: A Novel

af Sherry Jones

Serier: Medina (2)

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Before dying, Muhammad left his jeweled sword, al-Ma'thur, to A'isha, telling her to use it in the jihad to come. But what if the jihad is against her own people? After 20 years of distrust and anger, can A'isha and Ali come together to preserve the future of their people and their faith--or will their hatred of each other destroy everything Muhammad worked to build? This climactic sequel to the controversial [i]The Jewel of Medina[/i] returns to 7th century Arabia to discover whether, after fighting a civil war, a people can ever truly heal.… (mere)
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Antes de morir, Mahoma le entrega a su esposa Aisha la espada de Medina, aconsejándole que en el futuro haga buen uso de ella en la lucha santa, la yihad. Desolada por la muerte de su esposo, Aisha sufre también a causa de la nueva situación de su pueblo: su propio padre, Abu Bakr, busca reforzar el Islam luchando salvajemente con los beduinos rebeldes que intentan perturbar la paz de su tierra. Al mismo tiempo, Alí, el único heredero de Mahoma, teme que, de no llevar a cabo ninguna acción, los corruptos consejeros del Profeta pongan en peligro la supervivencia del Islam. Otros le urgen a hacerse con el poder y guiar al pueblo musulmán tal como Mahoma lo había deseado. Aisha descubre con horror que Alí ejerce la violencia contra las mujeres e introduce en el Islam nuevas formas que las relegan. Mientras Alí acusa a Abu de la matanza de inocentes, Aisha se enfrenta a él reprochándole su ambición de poder. A partir de aquí, se desarrolla una feroz lucha entre ambos personajes, fundamentales para entender los orígenes del Islam.
  Natt90 | Dec 9, 2022 |
This is book 2 of 2 of Sherry Jones's controversial novels about Aisha, Islam's prophet Muhammad's child-bride. As someone well-grounded in Islamic history and teachings, both books profoundly irritated me, and not because of any offense.

Poetic license with history is one thing, sloppy inconsistencies in transliterations is another. For example, one character is sometimes called Abdallah, other times Abdullah, other times Abd Allah. Where was this author's editor and/or proofreader?

Even the author's instances of genuine poetic license, including and especially calling God "Al-Lah" instead of "Allah", seemed like unnecessarily jarring choices to me. It serves no purpose that I can discern.

In short, I came to the books eager for the scandal (modern and ancient) and ended up mostly annoyed. The only reason I'm not giving this the lowest rating is that it's one of the few fictionalized works about Islamic history. It succeeds somewhat in both humanizing Muhammad's closest companions and also illuminating people on the unsavory civil-war-related aspects of early Islam, knowledge about which is often deliberately withheld from Muslims. ( )
  heinous-eli | Jun 14, 2021 |
mnogo pitkije stivo od Dragulja Medine, mozda zato sto sam usla u tematiku i upoznala likove, prica prati Ajsu kroz period vladavine cetiri halife.... ( )
  ceca78 | Apr 10, 2016 |
Aisha, la más joven de las esposas de Mahoma, había fascinado al Profeta con su astucia e inteligencia, obteniendo la confianza y el respeto de su esposo y de su comunidad. Al morir Mahoma sin un sucesor, Aisha y las demás esposas se encuentran devastadas por la pérdida y se ven obligadas a continuar con sus papeles de Madres de los Creyentes sin contar con la presencia del Profeta. La situación empeora cuando la comunidad musulmana sufre el acoso de un ejército beduino que amenaza su supervivencia.

Tras perder a su guía y luego a su amada esposa, Alí, el único heredero que sobrevive a Mahoma, está destrozado. Quienes han sido designados como líderes creen que los apoyará, mientras que otros lo urgen a hacerse con el poder a fin de que sea él quien guíe al pueblo musulmán, tal como lo pretendía Mahoma. Alí teme que, de no llevar a cabo ninguna acción, los sucesores del Profeta y sus corruptos consejeros pongan en peligro la supervivencia del Islam y de sus seguidores.

Antes de morir, Mahoma dejó su preciosa espada a Aisha diciéndole que debería utilizarla en la inminente yihad. Pero ¿y si la yihad fuera en contra de su propia gente? Tras veinte años de desconfianza y rencor mutuos, Aisha y Alí deberán unirse para preservar el futuro de su pueblo y de su fe, o dejar que el odio acabe con todo lo que Mahoma construyó.
  kika66 | Feb 20, 2011 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
This book is set in the eighth century in Saudi Arabia right after the death of Muhammed. Before Muhammed died he left his jewelled sword, al-Ma'thur, to his favorite wife Aisha, telling her to use it in the jihad to come. Aisha's father Abu Bakr takes over as Kalifa but quickly succumbs to the same illness which took Muhammed's life, creating yet more turmoil over the who will be the next Kalifa. The turmoil created fissions in the Islamic religion which still continue to this day. Another candidate for the position of Kalifa is Ali, a relative of Muhammed, who is Aisha's sworn enemy due to unkind comments he made years ago. Aisha does all she can to prevent this from happening.

This book of historical fiction is told alternately between the point of views of Ali and Aisha both of whom express increasing dismay at the changes developing in the Islamic religion since Muhammed's death. Eventually Aisha and Ali come to respect each other and Aisha come to see that Ali is the best choice for Kalifa but Ali is murdered before he has a chance to serve.

I very much enjoyed this book. I found Jones' writing style to be engaging from the very beginning despite not being sure what to expect from this book. I have read books before that are set in the contemporary middle east but nothing from around the time of the beginning of Islam so I did not know most of the history. I like the fact that although Aisha and Ali are initially enemies that time and wisdom erases their differences and they begin to see how alike they really are. I would like to read the prequel “The jewel of Medina”. ( )
  mmhorman | Jun 21, 2010 |
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Before dying, Muhammad left his jeweled sword, al-Ma'thur, to A'isha, telling her to use it in the jihad to come. But what if the jihad is against her own people? After 20 years of distrust and anger, can A'isha and Ali come together to preserve the future of their people and their faith--or will their hatred of each other destroy everything Muhammad worked to build? This climactic sequel to the controversial [i]The Jewel of Medina[/i] returns to 7th century Arabia to discover whether, after fighting a civil war, a people can ever truly heal.

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