A fresh look at the past, present and future of a conflict that lies at the heart of the Middle East
A Prospect 'History Book of the Year' 2024 A Guardian 'Best Gift Book of 2024' 'A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance' Rory Stewart 'Rogerson is an original - eloquent and always fascinating ... few British authors understand the Middle East so intimately and well' William Dalrymple Recommended on The Rest is Politics and Empire At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400-year-old schism between Sunni and Shia. To understand this divide and its modern resonances, we need to revisit its origins, which go back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632, the accidental coup that set aside the claims of his cousin and son-in-law Ali, and the slaughter of Ali's own son Husayn at Kerbala. These events, known to every Muslim, have created a slender faultline in the Middle East. The House Divided follows these narratives from the first Sunni and Shia caliphates, through the medieval caliphates and empires of the Arabs, Persians and Ottomans, to the contemporary Middle East. It shows how a complex range of identities and rivalries - religious, ethnic and national - have shaped the region, jolted by the seismic shift of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Rogerson's original approach takes the modern chessboard of nation states and looks at each through its particular history of empires and occupiers, minorities and resources, sheikhs and imams. The result is a book of wide-ranging empathy, understanding and insights.
"This is not a book to be ignored ... [a] digestible history of the restless region [and] a useful alternative to academic tracts" - The Times
"A balanced, sweeping, hugely ambitious work that delves into the long and tangled roots of the modern Middle East" - Literary Review
"Impressive ... a highly readable, lovingly researched, romantic and engaging history" - Spectator
"Brilliant" - Empire
"A tour de force. One of the best summary histories of Islam I have come across. Informative, engaging, and excitingly written" - In Search of Fatima
"A lucid, vivid and sweeping history of the divisions within Islam and their destructive impact on the contemporary Muslim world. Barnaby Rogerson takes you to the heart of the arguments and battles, revealing some stark truths. This is history as a living entity. A dazzling achievement" - In Search of Mecca
"Rogerson is a master storyteller, equally at home sketching the intimacies of the Prophet's household as he is illuminating geopolitical trends across the world of contemporary Islam" - Nine Quarters of Jerusalem
"Rogerson knows that things are much more complex than Sunni versus Shia. But in its depiction of the multiple cats' cradles of tensions, The House Divided is jauntily readable and thought-provoking about a Middle East still in the middle of global crises, and still, as so often, misunderstood" - Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
"Praise for Barnaby Rogerson" - :
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A Prospect 'History Book of the Year' 2024 A Guardian 'Best Gift Book of 2024' 'A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance' Rory Stewart 'Rogerson is an original - eloquent and always fascinating ... few British authors understand the Middle East so intimately and well' William Dalrymple Recommended on The Rest is Politics and Empire At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400-year-old schism between Sunni and Shia. To understand this divide and its modern resonances, we need to revisit its origins, which go back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632, the accidental coup that set aside the claims of his cousin and son-in-law Ali, and the slaughter of Ali's own son Husayn at Kerbala. These events, known to every Muslim, have created a slender faultline in the Middle East. The House Divided follows these narratives from the first Sunni and Shia caliphates, through the medieval caliphates and empires of the Arabs, Persians and Ottomans, to the contemporary Middle East. It shows how a complex range of identities and rivalries - religious, ethnic and national - have shaped the region, jolted by the seismic shift of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Rogerson's original approach takes the modern chessboard of nation states and looks at each through its particular history of empires and occupiers, minorities and resources, sheikhs and imams. The result is a book of wide-ranging empathy, understanding and insights.
"This is not a book to be ignored ... [a] digestible history of the restless region [and] a useful alternative to academic tracts" - The Times
"A balanced, sweeping, hugely ambitious work that delves into the long and tangled roots of the modern Middle East" - Literary Review
"Impressive ... a highly readable, lovingly researched, romantic and engaging history" - Spectator
"Brilliant" - Empire
"A tour de force. One of the best summary histories of Islam I have come across. Informative, engaging, and excitingly written" - In Search of Fatima
"A lucid, vivid and sweeping history of the divisions within Islam and their destructive impact on the contemporary Muslim world. Barnaby Rogerson takes you to the heart of the arguments and battles, revealing some stark truths. This is history as a living entity. A dazzling achievement" - In Search of Mecca
"Rogerson is a master storyteller, equally at home sketching the intimacies of the Prophet's household as he is illuminating geopolitical trends across the world of contemporary Islam" - Nine Quarters of Jerusalem
"Rogerson knows that things are much more complex than Sunni versus Shia. But in its depiction of the multiple cats' cradles of tensions, The House Divided is jauntily readable and thought-provoking about a Middle East still in the middle of global crises, and still, as so often, misunderstood" - Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
"Praise for Barnaby Rogerson" - :
Формат: Скан PDf
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