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

by Nicolas Pelham

Overview

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 turbaning 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 to topple Paul Bremer, America's Shah in Iraq. As Washington struggled to back peddle, Pelham reveals how the Ayatollahs' drive for elections won power for their acolytes to draft the constitution for a utopian Shia state.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845111397
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/15/2008
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Nicolas Pelham has spent 20 years studying, writing and broadcasting in the Middle East and North Africa. He has lived in Damascus, Cairo, Rabat and most recently Baghdad, where he covered the US occupation as a correspondent for The Economist and Financial Times. He nowworks in Jerusalem as a senior analyst for the Brussels-based think-tank,International Crisis Group.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Nicolas Pelham's previous work:
*A brilliantly deft and well-informed guide... coherent, dispassionate and remarkably inclusive.*
—The Times Educational Supplement

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