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Isn’t the opposite equally true?

Lawrence Rosen: Between Sunni and Shi’a, 19 November 2020

Sunnis and Shi’a: A Political History 
by Laurence Louër.
Princeton, 227 pp., £25, February, 978 0 691 18661 0
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry that Unravelled the Middle East 
by Kim Ghattas.
Wildfire, 337 pp., £20, January, 978 1 4722 7109 9
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... that analogies, ‘starting as devices to liberate thought … end often by enslaving it’.Laurence Louër and Kim Ghattas follow different but not incompatible lines of exposition as they struggle to make sense of events in the region. Louër, a sociologist at Sciences Po in Paris, takes a straightforwardly ...

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