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The House Divided - Sunni, Shia and the Conflict in the Middle East (Hardcover, Main)
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The House Divided - Sunni, Shia and the Conflict in the Middle East (Hardcover, Main)
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Rogerson's timely book begins with the contemporary Middle East and
the proxy wars between Saudi Arabia and its Sunni allies and Shiite
Iran. To understand these, he suggests, we must understand the
origins of the Sunni-Shia divide, 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 fault line in the Middle East. This is a vivid tale full of
doomed heroes and secret conspiracies as Rogerson shows how the
rivalry between Arab, Turk and Persian has shaped the modern
chessboard of nation states, oil wells, mountains and minorities,
and at the seismic shift from the Iranian Revolution of 1979. It is
vital, Rogerson contends, to both understand and empathise with the
Islamic world's struggles with a conflict that matters not only in
the Middle East, but to the world at large
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