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

by Pelham, Nicolas.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : New York, NY : I.B. Tauris ; In the United States of America distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008Description: xv, 272 p. : map ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1845111397 (pbk.); 9781845111397.Subject(s): 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 centuryOnline resources: Table of contents only
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.

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