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a concise history of sunnis and shi'is
[Hardback - 2017]
john mchugo
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Publisher: Saqi Books Uk | ISBN: 9780863561634 | Pages: 352
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An essential guide to understanding the divide that has come to define Islam and the Muslim world.

The 1400-year-old schism between Sunnis and Shi is is currently reflected in the destructive struggle for hegemony between Saudi Arabia and Iran with no apparent end in sight. But how did this conflict begin, and why is it now the focus of so much attention?

In this definitive account, John McHugo charts the history of Islam from the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad to the present day. He describes the conflicts that raged over the succession to the Prophet, how Sunnism and Shiism evolved as different sects during the Abbasid caliphate, and how the rivalry between the empires of the Sunni Ottomans and Shii Safavids ensured that the split would continue into the modern age. In recent decades, this centuries-old divide has acquired a new toxicity resulting in violence across the Arab and Muslim world.

About the Author

After studying Arabic and Islamic studies at Oxford University and the American University in Cairo in the early 1970s, John McHugo s career as an international lawyer took him to a number of Arab countries including Egypt, Oman and Bahrain over a period of more than a quarter of a century. He is an honorary Senior Fellow at the Centre for Syrian Studies at St Andrews, and a board member of the Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU) and the British Egyptian Society. He has also written on legal aspects of the Arab-Israeli dispute and advised Tim Farron, when he was leader of the Liberal Democrats, on Palestinian issues. His other publications include the critically acclaimed A Concise History of the Arabs and Syria: A Recent History. www.johnmchugo.com

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