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001			ASIN0199065934
005			20170105102933.0
008			150603s2012 xxu eng d
020			_a0199065934 (paperback) _c$45.00
020			_a9780199065936 (paperback)
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050	0	4	_aHN690.5.V5
082	0	4	_a363.325095491 _bAHM 2011
100	1		_aAhmed, Khaled.
245	1	0	_aSectarian war : _bpakistan's sunni-shia violence and its links to the middle east / _cKhaled Ahmed.
260			_a[S.l.] : _bOxford University Press, _c2012.
300			_a300 p. ; _c22 cm.
520			_aThe book is an account of how the Shia-Sunni conflict was relocated from the Middle East to Pakistan after the rise of Revolutionary Iran in 1979, through the mediating agency of the rulers in Pakistan and the proliferation of the religious seminaries funded by Saudi Arabia. It examines the death of General Zia in the context of the sectarian conflict, goes into the process of production of apostatising fatwas in Pakistan followed by violent action by organizations formed from the non-state actors used by the state for its covert wars. It also delves into the state of the Shia communities in the Middle East and their historical connections with South Asia. It examines the rise of Shia culture in Lucknow and its formative influence on the rise of the Shia in Iraq, with a parallel scrutiny of the rise of Wahhabism and its infiltration of India in the eighteenth century. It records the origins and history of organisations doing sectarian terrorism in Pakistan and their linkages to Al Qaeda whose trajectory into a sectarian identity is also traced to the rise of Al Zarqawi as a parallel leader in Iraq. The book facilitates an understanding of the phenomenon of terrorism in Pakistan today.
650		0	_aInterfaith relations
650		0	_aMiddle East
650		0	_aPakistan
650		0	_aPolitical violence--Religious aspects
650		0	_aShīʻah
650		0	_aSunnites
650		0	_aTerrorism--Religious aspects
650		0	_aTerrorism--Religious aspects--Islam
856	4	0	_3Amazon.com _uhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0199065934/chopaconline-20
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