Reaching for Power: The Shi’a in the Modern Arab World by Yitzhak Nakash (Princeton University Press, 226 pages, $19.95) The Shia Revival: How conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future by Vali Nasr (W.W. Norton, 287 pages, $25.95) The rise of Shia political parties in U.S.-occupied Iraq, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s violent verbal attacks on […]
Gilles Kepel
Gilles Kepel is a professor at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris and the author of The Revenge of God, Jihad, and The War for Muslim Minds, all available in English as well as French.