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Reaching for power : the shiʻa in the modern Arab world / Yitzhak Nakash.
- Title
- Reaching for power : the shiʻa in the modern Arab world / Yitzhak Nakash.
- Author
- Nakash, Yitzhak.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 226 p. : maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "This groundbreaking book addresses the crucial importance of Shi'is to the U.S. endeavor. Yet it also alerts readers to the strong nationalist sentiments of Shi'is, underscoring the difficult challenge that the United States faces in attempting to impose a new order in the Middle East."--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-210) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A Shiʻi-led reformation -- The burden of the past -- Containment politics in the Persian Gulf -- The struggle for power in Iraq -- The revival of Shiʻism in Lebanon -- Between aspirations and reality.
- ISBN
- 0691125295 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780691125299
- LCCN
- ^^2005021393
- OCLC
- 61162271
- SCSB-9932997
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library