The Shi'is of Iraq

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Princeton University Press, 16. 2. 2003 - 312 strán (strany)

The Shi'is of Iraq provides a comprehensive history of Iraq's majority group and its turbulent relations with the ruling Sunni minority. Yitzhak Nakash challenges the widely held belief that Shi'i society and politics in Iraq are a reflection of Iranian Shi'ism, pointing to the strong Arab attributes of Iraqi Shi'ism. He contends that behind the power struggle in Iraq between Arab Sunnis and Shi'is there exist two sectarian groups that are quite similar. The tension fueling the sectarian problem between Sunnis and Shi'is is political rather than ethnic or cultural, and it reflects the competition of the two groups over the right to rule and to define the meaning of nationalism in Iraq. A new introduction brings this book into the new century and illuminates the role that Shi`is could play in postwar Iraq.

 

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CHAPTER
13
CHAPTER
49
CHAPTER THREE
75
CHAPTER FOUR
109
CHAPTER FIVE
141
CHAPTER
163
CHAPTER SEVEN
184
Appendix 2
186
CHAPTER EIGHT
205
CHAPTER NINE
238
CONCLUSION
269
Appendix 1
283
Important Shii Shrines Tombs and Holy Sites in Iraq
285
Index
303
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Yitzhak Nakash teaches Middle Eastern history at Brandeis University. His publications on Iraq and Shi‘i Islam have gained recognition in the United States and Europe as well as in the Arab world and in Iran. He is currently completing a new book focusing on Shi‘ism and nationalism in the Arab world.

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