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The House Divided

The House Divided

Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East

by Barnaby Rogerson
Hardback
Publication Date: 26/03/2024

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A fresh look at the past, present and future of a conflict that lies at the heart of the Middle East

Rogerson is an original - eloquent and always fascinating' - William Dalrymple

At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400-year-old schism between Sunni and Shia. To understand this divide and its modern resonances, we need to revisit its origins, which go back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632, the accidental coup that set aside the claims of his son Ali, and the slaughter of Ali's own son Husayn at Kerbala. These events, known to every Muslim, have created a slender faultline in the Middle East.

The House Divided follows these narratives from the first Sunni and Shia caliphates, through the medieval caliphates and empires of the Arabs, Persians and Ottomans, to the contemporary Middle East. It shows how a complex range of identities and rivalries - religious, ethnic and national - have shaped the region, jolted by the seismic shift of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Rogerson's original approach takes the modern chessboard of nation states and looks at each through its particular history of empires and occupiers, minorities and resources, sheikhs and imams. The result is a book of wide-ranging empathy, understanding and insights.

ISBN:
9781781257258
9781781257258
Category:
Comparative religion
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
26-03-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Profile Books Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
432
Dimensions (mm):
240x162x44mm
Weight:
0.66kg
Barnaby Rogerson

Barnaby Rogerson has been travelling the Islamic world for the last forty years, first as a young man writing guidebooks, then as a journalist, and finally as a writer of histories.

He is publisher of the acclaimed travel list, Eland Books. His books include The Prophet Muhammad: a Biography, The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad and The Last Crusaders.

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