Pelham, Nicolas.
A new Muslim order : the Shia and the Middle East sectarian crisis / by Nicolas Pelham. - London ; New York : New York, NY : I.B. Tauris ; In the United States of America distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - xv, 272 p. : 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
2008300124
Shīʻah--Political aspects--Middle East.
Shīʻah--Relations--Sunnites.
Sunnites--Relations--Shīʻah.
Islam and politics--Middle East.
Shīʻah--Doctrines.
Sunnites--Doctrines.
Middle East--Politics and government--21st century.
BP194.185 / .P45 2008
A new Muslim order : the Shia and the Middle East sectarian crisis / by Nicolas Pelham. - London ; New York : New York, NY : I.B. Tauris ; In the United States of America distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - xv, 272 p. : 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
2008300124
Shīʻah--Political aspects--Middle East.
Shīʻah--Relations--Sunnites.
Sunnites--Relations--Shīʻah.
Islam and politics--Middle East.
Shīʻah--Doctrines.
Sunnites--Doctrines.
Middle East--Politics and government--21st century.
BP194.185 / .P45 2008