A new Muslim order : the Shia and the Middle East sectarian crisis

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pelham, Nicolas.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London New York New York, NY: I.B. Tauris: In the United States of America distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008..
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Table of Contents:
  • From Trilby to turbans
  • Stirring in the Shia slums
  • Cracks in the Sunni bulwark
  • The scramble for Shia succession
  • Foreigners come gobbling
  • The American Shah of Iraq
  • The reconstruction myth
  • The quiet Ayatollah's regime-change
  • America's exiles carve up the spoils
  • From Baathism to jihad
  • The Sunni Arab emirates
  • The local hero and the fighting arm of Hizbollah
  • Regime-change and the Baathist interregnum
  • The staying power of the Shia
  • The country once called Iraq
  • The reawakening of Arab Shiism
  • The two stripes of the Arab world : Shia Protestantism and the Sunni counter-reformation.