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A new Muslim order : the Shia and the Middle East sectarian crisis / by Nicolas Pelham.

By: Publisher: London : I.B. Tauris , 2008Description: xv, 272 pages ; map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1845111397 (pbk.)
  • 9781845111397
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 216 P383
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.
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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.