The house divided: Sunni, Shia, and the making of the Middle East

Introduction: The house divided

The origins of the Sunni-Shia schism

Medieval caliphates

The emergence of the three: Turkey, Persia, Saudi Arabia

Colonial night, 1830-1979

1979 revolutions: the Middle East transformed

Twenty-first-century battlefields: Syria, Iraq and Yemen

The enemy of my enemy: Egypt, Israel, USA and Qatar

Far frontiers and distant powers: Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Chechnya and China's New Silk Road

An afterword: The Middle East after the Gaza War.