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Cover -- THE CALIPH AND THE IMAM: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Maps -- Note on Spelling and Transliterations -- Prologue: From Karbala to Damascus -- PART I: The Formation of Sunnism and Shiism, 632-1500 -- 1: After the Prophet -- 2: Sunni Reassertion and the Crusades -- 3: Polemics and Confessional Ambiguity -- PART II: The Shaping of Muslim Empires, 1500-1800 -- 4: The Age of Confessionalisation -- 5: Muslim Dynasties on the Indian Subcontinent -- 6: Reform and Reinvention in the Eighteenth Century -- PART III: Empire and the State, 1800-1979 -- 7: British India and Orientalism -- 8: Ottoman Reorganisation and European Intervention -- 9: The Mandates -- 10: The Muslim Response -- PART IV: Revolution and Rivalry, 1979- -- 11: The Religion of Martyrdom -- 12: Export and Containment of Revolution -- 13: Regime Change -- 14: The Arab Uprisings -- Conclusion: Every Place is Karbala -- Endnotes -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Interviews -- Journals -- Websites -- Unpublished PhDs -- Unpublished Masters -- Reports -- Bibliography Entries -- Encyclopedia Entries -- Books and Articles -- News Sources -- Think Tank Publications -- Index.

No sectarian division has had a more momentous impact than that between the two dominant branches of Islam. Widely considered the world's leading expert on the subject, Toby Matthiesen offers the full story of the Sunni-Shia split, delving down from its roots in the early days of Islam to the present day and its global effect on current events.