Transnational Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf

by Laurence Louër and Laurence Louer

Book Overview

This book illuminates the historical origins and present situation of militant Shia transnational networks by focusing on three key countries in the Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, whose Shia Islamic groups are the offspring of Iraqi movements. The reshaping of the area's geopolitics after the Gulf War and the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003 have had a profound impact on transnational Shiite networks, pushing them to focus on national...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199326568
• ISBN13: 9780199326563
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.6"