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