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A New Muslim Order: The Shia and the Middle East Sectarian Crisis
Nicolas Pelham explores how America’s overthrow of the Baath party in 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 beginning with Saddam’s rule to the post-Bremer period, he traces the turning of the tables from a Sunni to Shia-led state. Pelham recounts how Shia clerics led the largest protest the region had seen since the Iranian Revolution to topple Paul Bremer, America’s head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. As Washington struggled to control the situation, Pelham reveals how the Ayatollahs' drive for elections won power for their acolytes to draft the constitution for a utopian Shia state.
- GenresIslam
224 pages, Paperback
First published July 15, 2008
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February 3, 2016
3.5-5 rating.
Considering this book was published in 2008, it successfully managed to capture the facts and perceptions relating to the most important outcome of the 2003 war, and that is the rise of the shias political influence in the Arab world, which results still reverberates.
what I most liked when reading this book is how the author expressed the inter and intra sectarian sentiments regarding the "fortunes" and misfortunes the befell the the iraqi people and and the political forces. Such statements like "two empowered sects against a third disempowered one" and another statement like "the fate Sunni arabs had inflicted on jews, Persians, Christians and Arab shias was ultimately rebounding on them"....which kinda reads the sunnis had it coming to them.
you wonder if the author here is a messenger or an analyzer or if the war too had a lasting affect on his judgement, and no I did not mean this in a negative sense, more of a curious one.
Considering this book was published in 2008, it successfully managed to capture the facts and perceptions relating to the most important outcome of the 2003 war, and that is the rise of the shias political influence in the Arab world, which results still reverberates.
what I most liked when reading this book is how the author expressed the inter and intra sectarian sentiments regarding the "fortunes" and misfortunes the befell the the iraqi people and and the political forces. Such statements like "two empowered sects against a third disempowered one" and another statement like "the fate Sunni arabs had inflicted on jews, Persians, Christians and Arab shias was ultimately rebounding on them"....which kinda reads the sunnis had it coming to them.
you wonder if the author here is a messenger or an analyzer or if the war too had a lasting affect on his judgement, and no I did not mean this in a negative sense, more of a curious one.
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