Suggested Reading: The Shia-Sunni Conflict

The following is a list of suggested reading about the Shia-Sunni conflict.

• The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future, by Vali Nasr, W.W. Norton and Company, 2006.
• Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty, by Ali Gheissari and Vali Nasr, Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Reaching for Power: The Shi'a in the Modern Arab World, by Yitzhak Nakash, Princeton University Press, 2006.
• The Shi'is of Iraq, by Yitzhak Nakash, Princeton University Press, 2003.
• Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture, and History of Shi'ite Islam, by Juan Cole, I.B. Tauris, 2002.
• Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran, by Daniel Brumberg, University of Chicago Press, 2001.
• Hezbollah: A Short History, by Augustus Richard Norton, Princeton University Press, 2007.
• Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic, by Ray Takeyh, Times Books, 2006.
• The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, by George Packer, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
• The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America, by Kenneth Pollack, Random House, 2004.
• Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied, by Toby Dodge, Columbia University Press, 2005.
• A History of Iraq, by Charles Tripp, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• The Future of Political Islam, by Graham E. Fuller, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
• The Iranian Labyrinth: Journeys Through Theocratic Iran and Its Furies, Dilip Hiro, Nation Books, 2005.
• The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict, Dilip Hiro, Paladin Grafton Books, 1990.
• A History of the Arab Peoples, Albert Hourani, Warner Books, 1992.