After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
women who had toted submachine guns in the streets of Teheran, calling themselves “the commandos of Zayna ...
Just one of Hussein’s ɹve sons had survived, but for the Shia, that one was enough. He would be the fourth o ...
By the end of the eighth century, under the fabled Caliph Harun al-Rashid, the Muslim empire stre ...
hew to belief in twelve Imams and, following their example, focus more on religious devotion than ...
Baghdad. The name of the Askariya shrine encodes the fate of the two Imams buried there. It comes from the ...
The twelfth Imam’s name is Muhammad al-Mahdi: “the one who guides divinely.” He is often referred to b ...
state, a suspension of presence in the world rather than an absence, and it has lasted more than a tho ...
All this and more can sound extraordinarily speciɹc in the modern Middle East. Iranians threw oʃ the reins o ...
entombed in a gold-domed shrine clearly modeled on those of Ali and Hussein. Messianic fervor also hel ...
In Iraq, the sense of apocalypse was closer to home as chaos followed the American invasion of 2003 ...
“Well of Disappearance”—the cave where the twelfth Imam had descended and disappeared from the world, to ...
chapter 15 ATROCITIES LIKE THE ASHURA MASSACRE AT KARBALA IN 2004 and the destruction of the ...
gained the status they still have today, when more than four out of five Muslims are non-Arab. Separate ...
once more divided as it had been under the Byzantines and the Persians. This time the divide would be b ...
Whatever balance there was would be changed utterly by World War I and the consequent partitioning of the form ...
murky “arms for hostages” Iran-Contra affair. Such heavy-handed intervention helped create the intense anti-We ...
deɻecting its impact at home. The Saudis became major exporters of Wahhabi extremism and its bitterly anti- Shia ...
their own peril, all the more since many in the Middle East suspect that Western powers have deli ...
After close to a century of failed intervention, Westerners ɹnally need to stand back, to acknowledge t ...
Acknowledgment This book had its origins in a series of conversations with the writer Jonathan Raban, and I ...
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