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

By: Pelham, Nicolas.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; 2008Description: xv, 272 p. : map ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781845111397 (pbk.).Subject(s): Shiah -- Political aspects -- Middle East | Shi'ah -- Relations -- Sunnites | Sunnites -- Relations -- Shi'ah | Islam and politics -- Middle East | Shiah -- Doctrines | Sunnites -- Doctrines | Middle East -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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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