TY - BOOK AU - Pelham,Nicolas TI - A new Muslim order: the Shia and the Middle East sectarian crisis SN - 1845111397 (pbk.) U1 - 216 23 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - I.B. Tauris KW - shiah - political aspects KW - Middle East KW - Islam and politics KW - Middle East KW - Politics and government KW - 21st century N1 - 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 ER -