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A new Muslim order : the Shia and the Middle East sectarian crisis / by Nicolas Pelham.
Van Pelt Library BP194.185 .P45 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pelham, Nicolas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shīʻah--Political aspects--Middle East.
- Shīʻah.
- Shīʻah--Relations--Sunnites.
- Relations.
- Sunnites.
- Sunnites--Relations--Shīʻah.
- Islam and politics--Middle East.
- Islam and politics.
- Politics and government.
- Shīʻah--Political aspects.
- Middle East.
- Middle East--Politics and government--21st century.
- Shīʻah--Doctrines.
- Sunnites--Doctrines.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 272 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York, NY : In the United States of America distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-233) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1845111397
- 9781845111397
- OCLC:
- 173092235
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