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THE SHIA REVIVAL

Vali Nasr

In this timely and important book, Vali Nasr circumvents America-centric thinking and conventional assumptions about "political Islam" to address the effect of a resurgence of Shia power and the resulting internecine struggles that will shape the future of both the region and world affairs.

Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr has become one of America's leading commentators on current events in the Middle East, admired and welcomed by both media and government for his "concise and coherent" analysis (Wall Street Journal, front-page profile). In this "remarkable work" (Anderson Cooper), Nasr brilliantly dissects the political and theological antagonisms within Islam, providing a unique and objective understanding of the 1,400-year bitter struggle between Shias and Sunnis and shedding crucial light on its modern-day consequences. Vali Nasr is a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Born in Iran, he now lives in La Jolla, California.

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Book Published 2016-09-01 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. - New York (USA)

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Historically incisive, geographically broad-reaching, and brimming with illuminating anecdotes.

Fast-moving, engaging and ultimately unnerving..The Shia Revival is at is most provocative when exposing how the Sunni-Shiite power imbalance seeps out of classrooms and infects life on the ground.

Dar al Kitab al Arabi (Arabic), Editions Demopolis (French), Yediot Ahronoth (Hebrew), Diwan (Indonesian), and EGEA (Italian).

As enlightening as it is thought-provoking. The Shia Revival is important both to the expert and the lay person..It is lively, engaging, provocative, and should not be missed

Arguably the best book on the market that provides a critical background to the emotionally charged events we have been witnessing in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and beyond.

The value of Mr. Nasr's account lies in the context he gives to today's headlines. Briskly, but with the authority of someone who knows the countries he discusses, he explains the emergence in the early days of Islam of a rift between backers of the Umayyad caliphate, who would later be called Sunnis, and their Shiite opponents.

If you want to understand the wider repercussions of the war between Hezbollah and Israel, buy a brilliant and very readable new book called The Shia Revival...Nasr gives a fascinating short course in the historic difference between Shiites and Sunnis.

Broad-ranging and detailed, but still eminently readable.

Brilliant, clear, and erudite.