Shi'i Islam has been the focus of sustained attention since the success of the Iranian revolution in 1979. Yet beyond the Iranian case, the role of Shi'ism in politics across the Middle East has attracted little serious research...more details Format:Paperback Pages:391
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Faleh A Jabar
ISBN:9780863569616
The chain of developments unleashed by Gorbachev's perestroika, "glasnost" and '"new political thinking"' culminated in the disintegration of what had hitherto been known in Marxist jargon as the socialist camp or the world of existing socialism. Some of the events in this process were dramatic: the execution of the Romanian dictator Ceaucescu...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256