1979 And The Re-Emergence Of The Islamic Empire
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The methodology for this monograph consists of analyzing each of these four events and then synthesizing this information in order to determine how 1979 shaped the modern Middle East. Since the seventeenth century the Sunni sect dominated Islam. The Iranian revolution reenergized the Shiite sect throughout the Middle East while Sunni power simultaneously eroded throughout the region. While the Shiites were inspiring the Islamic community in 1979, the Sunni suffered significant blows to their legitimacy as the leaders of Islam.
This monograph asserts that the prevailing conflict within the Middle East is first and foremost a contest between the Shiites and the Sunni for preeminence within the Islamic world. The conflict between Islam and the outside world remains secondary in importance. The contemporary Middle Eastern actors that dominate the western consciousness such as HAMMAS, FATA, Hezbollah, Al-Qaida, and the Taliban constitute proxy armies created by the Shiite and Sunni leadership to wage a war for influence within the Islamic world. The events of 1979 have resulted in a leveling of power in the Middle East and the emergence of the Shiites as an ideological peer competitor to the traditionally dominant Sunni.
Major Thomas M. Hough
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1979 And The Re-Emergence Of The Islamic Empire
by
Major Thomas M. Hough United States Army
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS 4
Abstract 5
1979 And The Re-emergence Of The Islamic Empire 6
Iran: 1979 A Shiite Empire is Re-born 7
Iran: Transformation from Persia to the Land of the Aryans 7
The Death of Persia: The 1979 Islamic Revolution 12
Thirty Years of Revolutionary Migration: Hezbollah 15
Egypt in 1979; The End of Egyptian History End of the Ottoman Empire to 1979: The Sick Old Man Became Contagious 18
1979 Egyptian recognition of Israel: The Death of the Arabs 21
The Power of Shiite Dawa: How Shiite Iran won over Sunni Hamas 23
Saudi Arabia and 1979; A Royal Families Fight for Survival From the Death of the Sick Old Man to the Birth of a New Islamic Kingdom 25
The Siege of the Grand Mosque 29
Impact of 1979 on today: Al-Qaida 32
Afghanistan and 1979; The Opening of the Western Front in the War for Islam 35
The Great Game's new map 35
1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 36
1979 in Afghanistan: The Roots of the Taliban 40
CONCLUSION 42
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 45
BIBLIOGRAPHY 46
Abstract
1979 and the re-emergence of the Islamic Empire by Major Thomas M. Hough, U.S. Army.
In 1979 the age old struggle for the control of Islam between the Shiite and Sunni sects re-emerged in the Middle East. Four events occurred in 1979 that defined the context of contemporary Middle Eastern politics: the Islamic revolution in Iran, the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli peace accords, the siege of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. This monograph directly addresses the roots of current Middle Eastern actors such as HAMAS, FATA, Hezbollah, Al-Qaida, and the Taliban in the aftermath of these four critical events that occurred in 1979.
The methodology for this monograph consists of analyzing each of these four events and then synthesizing this information in order to determine how 1979 shaped the modern Middle East. Since the seventeenth century the Sunni sect dominated Islam. The Iranian revolution reenergized the Shiite sect throughout the Middle East while Sunni power simultaneously eroded throughout the region. While the Shiites were inspiring the Islamic community in 1979, the Sunni suffered significant blows to their legitimacy as the leaders of Islam.
This monograph asserts that the prevailing conflict within the Middle East is first and foremost a contest between the Shiites and the Sunni for preeminence within the Islamic world. The conflict between Islam and the outside world remains secondary in importance. The contemporary Middle Eastern actors that dominate the western consciousness such as HAMMAS, FATA, Hezbollah, Al-Qaida, and the Taliban constitute proxy armies created by the Shiite and Sunni leadership to wage a war for influence within the Islamic world. The events of 1979 have resulted in a leveling of power in the Middle East and the emergence of the Shiites as an ideological peer competitor to the traditionally dominant Sunni.
1979 And The Re-emergence Of The Islamic Empire
Deep understanding of one's own culture is challenging—it is even more difficult to analyze others. However, for the United States and in particular the United States military and civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is essential to understand the dynamics of the Middle East. With thousands of years of recorded history dating back to the time of the Persian invasions of Greece and complicated by sixteen-hundred years of Islamic history starting with the prophet Mohammed in the seventh century, trying to figure out where to start can be intimidating.{1} However, one year in the past half century stands alone, and that year is 1979.
Four significant events occurred in 1979 that have had the effect of reinvigorating an empire and changing the dynamic of the Middle East from one characterized by Sunni domination to one shaped by Sunni and Shiite competition. These four events are the Islamic revolution in Iran, the Egyptian—Israeli peace treaty, the assault on the Grand Mosque by Islamic extremists in Saudi Arabia, and finally the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. These four events had the effect of once again elevating Islam to the center stage of politics in the Middle East region.
Since the independence movement of the 1930s, the newly independent Sunni nation states of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq struggled with transition from an Islamic Caliphate to the western nation state system. Prior to this, the people of the region had primarily been divided between those under the Sunni Ottoman Empire and those under the Shiite Sufavids Empire providing governance for its subjects, with Islam as both the religion and the state.{2} However, since the independence movement following World War I, the Middle East had followed a western model of governance, one heavily influenced by the British, French, and