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

Pelham, Nicolas.

A new Muslim order : the Shia and the Middle East sectarian crisis / by Nicolas Pelham. - xv, 272 pages ; map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-233) and index.

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.

1845111397 (pbk.) 9781845111397


shiah - political aspects-- -- Middle East.
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Islam and politics--Middle East.
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Middle East--Politics and government--21st century.

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