Open AccessNicholas Pelham, A New Muslim Order: The Shia and the Middle East Sectarian Crisis
Author(s) -
Christoph Marcinkowski
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
islam and civilisational renewal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2041-8728
pISSN - 2041-871X
DOI - 10.52282/icr.v2i3.639
Subject(s) - mesopotamia , phenomenon , middle east , analogy , order (exchange) , ancient history , world order , history , political science , sociology , law , philosophy , epistemology , economics , finance , politics
Nicholas Pelham’s A New Muslim Order, written by a senior journalist of international standing, tries to make sense of the current phenomenon of a multi-faceted Shi’ite ‘revival’ in the Arab world, a phenomenon which has been termed by others - wrongly, to the mind of this reviewer - as the emergence of a ‘Shi’ite Crescent’ (apparently in analogy to the ‘Fertile Crescent’ of Antiquity, spanning from Mesopotamia/Iraq over Syria to what is now Lebanon).