A New Muslim Order: The Shia and the Middle East Sectarian Crisis

by Nicolas Pelham

Nicolas Pelham explores how America's overthrow of the Baath partyin 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 from Saddam's rule to that of the post-Bremer rulers, he traces the turning of the tables from a Sunni- to Shia-led state. Pelham recounts how Shia clerics led the largest protests the region had seen since the Iranian Revolution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845111397
• ISBN13: 9781845111397
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"