Reaching for power
Subtitle: the shiʻa in the modern Arab world
By: Yitzhak Nakash.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780691125299
Subjects: Shiites -- Middle East; Islam and politics -- Middle East
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A Shiʻi-led reformation; title: The burden of the past; title: Containment politics in the Persian Gulf; title: The struggle for power in Iraq; title: The revival of Shiʻism in Lebanon; title: Between aspirations and reality.