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

Nicolas Pelham explores how America's overthrow of the Baath party in Iraq, and the failures of Washington's post-invasion regime spawned a Shiite revolution in the heartland of the Arab world. Through first-hand accounts beginning with Saddam's rule to the post-Bremer period, he trac...

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Main Author: Pelham, Nicolas (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London I.B. Tauris 2008
Subjects:
Shīʻah > Political aspects > Middle East
Islam and politics > Middle East > History > 20th century
Shīʻah > Relations > Sunnites
Sunnites > Relations > Shīʻah
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Table of 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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