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The Struggle for Mastery in the Fertile Crescent
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In this book, Fouad Ajami analyzes the struggle for influence along the Fertile Crescent—the stretch of land that runs from Iran's border with Iraq to the Mediterranean—among three of the regional powers who have stepped into the vacuum left by the West: Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. He explains that, of the three powers competing for influence, Saudi Arabia and Iran are in it for the long haul. Each of those powers has a sense of mission and constituencies that enable them to stick it out and pay the price for a sphere of influence. Each country's prospects for supremacy is detailed and Ajami asserts that Iran must ultimately be reckoned to be the strongest.
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INDEX
Abi Samra, Mohamed, 38–39
Abu Dahr, Moein, 21–22
activism, in Saudi Arabia, 3–4
Alawi, Hassan al-, 31
Alawis
Damascus military despotism, 5
minority, in Tripoli, 25
rule in Lebanon and Syria, 40
Sunni and, 11, 41
Ali, Imam, 26
Amal, 1
Lebanon domination by, 13
America
Iraq invasion by, 44–45
in Lebanon, 39
al-Maliki, Nuri, support by, 7
Anbar province, Sunnis and, 7
Arab nationalism, 13
in Iraq, 33, 44–45
Sunnism and, 5
in Tripoli, 24–25
Arab Spring rebellion, 5
Arafat, Yasser, 30
Arendt, Hannah, 6
Assad, Bashar al-, 4
Assad, Hafez al-, 40–41
Assir, Ahmad al-, 12–14, 21
escape of, 27
sectarian war role of, 1
Sidon and, 13
Baghdad, Shia rule in, 4, 5
Baniyas, Sunni-Alawi city of, 11
Beirut, 9
Fadlallah in, 49–50
Hezbollah conquest of, 4
political order of, 29
Shia in, 5
Sunnis in, 21, 29
Bekaa Valley, Hezbollah strongholds in, 11
Bell, Gertrude, 43
Between Past and Future (Arendt), 6
Bint Jbeil, 19–20
Britain
Iraq and, 31–32, 44
Sunni ascendency in Syria and, 43
car bomb
on Hezbollah’s strongholds, 20
in Turkey, 2013, 46–47
Cedar Revolution (2005), in Lebanon, 38–39
Chiha, Michel
Abi Samra on, 38–39
in Lebanon, 37–38
Custodian of the Two Holy
Mosques, 3–4
Damascus
Alawis military despotism in, 5
Assad, H. al-, dictatorship in, 40–41
Erdogan, Recep Tayyip, 3, 46
Fadlallah, Mohammad Hussein, 49–50
Faisal I (king), 2, 43–44
on Iraq, 44–45
Fertile Crescent, Sunni Islam weakness in, 4–5
“From Michel Chiha’s Lebanon to the Lebanon of Hassan Nasrallah” (Abi Samra), 38–39
Ghurayfi, Sayyid Muhammad Red...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Series Foreword: The Great Unraveling: The Remaking of the Middle East
- The Struggle for Mastery in the Fertile Crescent
- Source Notes
- About the Author
- About the Hoover Institution’s Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order
- Index