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The House Divided
Barnaby Rogerson
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Recommended on The Rest is Politics and Empire
'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' William Dalrymple
'Brilliant' Anita Anand
'This is not a book to be ignored' The Times
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 son 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.
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Remarkable - Barnaby Rogerson has succeeded in isolating all the different strands of North African history
A balanced, sweeping, hugely ambitious work that delves into the long and tangled roots of the modern Middle East
This book is a tour de force. One of the best summary histories of Islam from its beginnings until today I have come across. Informative, engaging, and excitingly written, it is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the origins and development of a great world religion
Rogerson is an excellent story-teller
Brilliant
Rogerson has a novelist'
Rogerson is an original - eloquent and always fascinating
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
Rogerson is eccentric and eclectic but always iconoclastic. He is not afraid to explore and elucidate the recondite in a way a more formal academic would not
Impressive ... a highly readable, lovingly researched, romantic and engaging history
A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance
Rogerson knows that things are much more complex than Sunni versus Shia. But in its depiction of the multiple cats'
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This digestible history of the restless region is a useful alternative to academic tracts ... it has answers to several of the basic questions: the difference between Sunni and Shia, how Turkey and Iran aren'
Rogerson is a master storyteller, equally at home sketching the intimacies of the Prophet'
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