Hazhir Teimourian
Islamic Schism
The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad: The Two Paths of Islam
By Barnaby Rogerson
Little Brown 314pp £17.99 order from our bookshop
In the months leading up to the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in the spring of 2003, Muslims in the West united to oppose the war. Whereas members of other nations were divided in their stance according to individual beliefs or temperaments (some thinking it an overdue intervention against a genocidal regime, others fearing a dangerous precedent in the absence of unanimous support at the United Nations), the Muslims had no doubts: the West must not interfere in the internal affairs of Muslim countries.
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