The Baluch, Sunnism and the State in Iran: From Tribal to Global - Hardcover

by Stéphane a. Dudoignon (Author)

This fascinating study explores the emergence of a significant Sunni community on the margins of Shia Iran and delineates a 'Sunni arc' stretching from Central Asia southwards through the Iranian provinces of Khorasan and Baluchistan.

Author Biography

Stephane A. Dudoignon is a CNRS Senior Research Fellow at EHESS (Paris). He works on the emergence of counter-elites out of marginal ethno-social groups in the modern Middle East and Central Asia, and is co-editor of Allah's Kolkhozes: Migration, De-Stalinisation, Privatisation and the New Muslim Congregations in the Former Soviet Realm (1950s2000s).