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Toby Matthiesen is a Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford. He is the author of a number of books, and won prizes from the American Political Science Association and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and Foreign Policy, and has published op-eds in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Guardian. He has been a guest on CNN, BBC, NPR, ABC and al-Jazeera English.
Ambitious...undoubtedly an admirable study...an accessible introduction to the historical context that underpins the modern Middle East * Tariq Mir, BBC History Magazine * a remarkable, ambitious and successful survey of Sunni-Shii relations that will be the definitive single-volume study of the subject for years to come. * Eamonn Gearon, Times Literary Supplement * clearly written, nuanced and meticulously documented * Malise Ruthven, Literary Review * a truly ambitious book in its historical and geographic scope...This book should be read by any expert who deals in the Middle East * Francis Ghiles, Esglobal * A useful correction to religious pigeonholes about Muslims, and to the easy-going prejudice that sectarian differences can never make things right with the Islamic world. * Michiel Leezenberg, NRC Handelsblad * Matthiesen's masterful survey of Sunni-Shiite relations in history is firmly grounded in the primary sources and ranges more widely geographically than is common in other works on the subject, including South Asia. The author avoids the glib truisms that have come to dominate discussion of this subject, while giving us thought-provoking, contextual insights into one of the key flash points within Islamic civilization. * Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History and Director, Program in Arab and Muslim American Studies, University of Michigan * Ambitious in its historical as well as geographical scope, this is the first truly global account of the intimate and sometimes also violent relationship of Sunni and Shia in the making and remaking of Islam. * Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History, University of Oxford * The Caliph and the Imam is an ambitious book .... The book will be of interest to those readers seeking a comprehensive in-depth historical survey of sectarian relations in Islam and Middle Eastern and South Asian history. * Christopher Anzalone, The Muslim World Book Review * The Caliph and the Imam is an ambitious book...The book will be of interest to those readers seeking a comprehensive in-depth historical survey of sectarian relations in Islam and Middle Eastern and South Asian history. * The Muslim World Book Review * The Caliph and the Imam is a hefty read, but all too rewarding for those who wish to understand how we got here. * Survival * Toby Matthiesen is quickly establishing himself as one of the more interesting historians of the Middle East. He has widened his lens in The Caliph and the Imam, grappling with the sectarian divisions that have plagued the region starting when the Prophet Muhammad was alive and continuing through to the Arab Spring. His thesis, that the sectarian divide was present from the beginning but became much more toxic after European colonial powers carved up the Middle East, is as provocative as it is insightful. * Ray Takeyh, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *
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