Bibliograph

Iran and Iraq, religion, war, and geopolitics, Philip Wolny

Type

Label

Iran and Iraq, religion, war, and geopolitics, Philip Wolny

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Iran and Iraq

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Philip Wolny

Series statement

Understanding Iran

Sub title

religion, war, and geopolitics

Summary

Iran and Iraq, though neighbors for many centuries, share both a common and a contentious history. Though both are Muslim nations, they have long been divided by their differing affiliations with the Shia and Sunni branches of Islam and by a cultural tension between Persian and Arab. These tensions have occasionally erupted into all-out warfare, most recently in the 1980s, when half a million Iraqis and Iranians were killed in a decade-long war. Today, however, following the toppling of the repressive Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein, Iraq's previously oppressed Shia majority is forging ties with Shia-dominated Iran and creating a new, potentially destabilizing balance of power in this part of the Middle East. This book explores the long, rich, complex, and charged history between these two Muslim nations and analyzes what path they seem to be heading down in the future, a journey that has weighty consequences for the western world and the United States

Target audience

juvenile

Classification