: In the United States of America distributed by Palgrave Macmillan
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, 2008.
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xv, 272 p.
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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.