Who is Kenan Makiya?
Iraqi exile, probably Shi`i by birth, but secular
opponent of Saddam Husayn regime
1989 book "Republic of Fear"
associated with inner circle of New American Century project, like Richard Perle (see this site)
viewed toppling of Saddam statue on TV at Bush's side
now abandoned? see this site.


Prologue
    Iblis dialogue (from the Sufi, al-Hallaj)
    Ka'b al-Ahbar, prominent source of Isra'iliyyat
    stories with multiple owners
The Rock of Foundation: omphalos or world navel
Locusts and Christians
    ref. to prophecy of Isaiah (p. 26)
Medina
    Jews accepting Muhammad
The Fundaments of the Universe
The Conquest Foretold
    ex post facto prophecy/apocalypse
Coming to Jerusalem
    Persian capital at Ctesiphon
The Black Stone
The Turmoil of Ka'b