Justin Marozzi

How dangerous is the Sunni-Shia schism?

What unites the two groups is more fundamental than what divides them, says Barnaby Rogerson, and the more serious conflict among Muslims concerns ethnicity and language

Arabs playing chess. From the 13th-century Libro de Los Juegos, commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile. [Bridgeman Images]

  • The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East

    Barnaby Rogerson

    Profile, pp. 398, £25

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