A new Muslim order : the Shia and the Middle East sectarian crisis - Pelham, Nicholas (London : I.B. Tauris, 2008)
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
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-233) and index
Keywords: Shiah -- Political aspects -- Middle East; Shi'ah -- Relations -- Sunnites; Sunnites -- Relations -- Shi'ah; Islam and politics -- Middle East; Shi'ah -- Doctrines; Sunnites -- Doctrines; Middle East -- Politics and government -- 21st century