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Online-Ressource (247 p)
ISBN:
9780691134789
Content:
As the world focuses on the conflict in Iraq, the most important political players in that country today are not the Sunni insurgents. Instead, they are Iraq's Shi'I majority--part of the Middle East's ninety million Shi'I Muslims who hold the key to the future of the region and the relations between Muslim and Western societies. So contends Yitzhak Nakash, one of the world's foremost experts on Shi'ism. With his characteristic verve and style, Nakash traces the role of the Shi'is in the struggle that is raging today among Muslims for the soul of Islam. He shows that in contrast to the grow
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Cover; Title; Copyrights; Contents; Preface; A Note on Transliteration; Prologue: A Shi'i-Led Reformation; Chapter 1 The Burden of the Past; Chapter 2 Containment Politics in the Persian Gulf; Chapter 3 The Struggle for Power in Iraq; Chapter 4 The Revival of Shi'ism in Lebanon; Chapter 5 Between Aspirations and Reality; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Further Reading; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400841462
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691134789
Additional Edition:
Print version Reaching for Power : The Shi'a in the Modern Arab World
Language:
English
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