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 / [Tetxe imprimé] : by Nicolas Pelham - London ; New York : New York, NY : I.B. Tauris ; In the United States of America distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 - 1 voil. (xv-272 p.) : ill, carte ; 24 cm
Index
Bibliogr. p. [229]-233
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
Shīʻah Shīʻah Sunnites Islam and politics Middle East Shīʻah Sunnites
320.10956
A new Muslim order the Shia and the Middle East sectarian crisis / [Tetxe imprimé] : by Nicolas Pelham - London ; New York : New York, NY : I.B. Tauris ; In the United States of America distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 - 1 voil. (xv-272 p.) : ill, carte ; 24 cm
Index
Bibliogr. p. [229]-233
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
Shīʻah Shīʻah Sunnites Islam and politics Middle East Shīʻah Sunnites
320.10956