Twenty-seven anecdotes are taken from the lives of the caliphs who succeeded the Prophet Muhammad as leaders of the Muslim community. Lessons and stories from the lives of the first four Rightly-Guided Caliphs, as well as caliphs of the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties, provide telling examples of proper conduct and sagacious insight. Endorsed by the Islamic Research Academy of El-Azhar, Cairo.
