The House Divided by Barnaby Rogerson

The House Divided by Barnaby Rogerson

A fresh look at the past, present and future of a conflict that lies at the heart of the Middle East

This is not a book to be ignored.. [a] digestible history of the restless region [and] a useful alternative to academic tracts -- Richard Spencer * The Times *
A balanced, sweeping, hugely ambitious work that delves into the long and tangled roots of the modern Middle East * Literary Review *
Impressive ... a highly readable, lovingly researched, romantic and engaging history * Spectator *
Brilliant -- Anita Anand * Empire *
A tour de force. One of the best summary histories of Islam I have come across. Informative, engaging, and excitingly written -- Ghada Karmi, author * In Search of Fatima *
A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance -- Rory Stewart
Rogerson is an original - eloquent and always fascinating -- William Dalrymple
A lucid, vivid and sweeping history of the divisions within Islam and their destructive impact on the contemporary Muslim world. Barnaby Rogerson takes you to the heart of the arguments and battles, revealing some stark truths. This is history as a living entity. A dazzling achievement -- Ziauddin Sardar, author * In Search of Mecca *
Rogerson is a master storyteller, equally at home sketching the intimacies of the Prophet's household as he is illuminating geopolitical trends across the world of contemporary Islam -- Matthew Teller, author * Nine Quarters of Jerusalem *
Rogerson knows that things are much more complex than Sunni versus Shia. But in its depiction of the multiple cats' cradles of tensions, The House Divided is jauntily readable and thought-provoking about a Middle East still in the middle of global crises, and still, as so often, misunderstood -- Tim Mackintosh-Smith, author * Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires *
Praise for Barnaby Rogerson * : *
Rogerson has a novelist's gift for filling out the characters of his main players -- Noel Malcolm
Rogerson is an excellent story-teller -- Norman Stone
Remarkable - Barnaby Rogerson has succeeded in isolating all the different strands of North African history -- John Julius Norwich
Rogerson is eccentric and eclectic but always iconoclastic. He is not afraid to explore and elucidate the recondite in a way a more formal academic would not -- Ross Leckie

Barnaby Rogerson is an author, publisher and journalist. Together with his partner Rose Baring, he runs Eland Publishing, which specializes in keeping the classics of travel literature in print. He has also written dozens of travel articles, book reviews and historical essays on various North African and Islamic themes, for Vanity Fair, Cornucopia, Conde Nast Traveller, Geographical, Traveller, Guardian, Independent,Telegraph, House & Garden, Harpers & Queen and the TLS.

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ISBN 13	9781781257265
ISBN 10	1781257264
Title	The House Divided
Author	Barnaby Rogerson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Profile Books Ltd
Year published	2025-02-27
Number of pages	432
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