The Shi'is of IraqPrinceton University Press, 26. 6. 2018 - 336 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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... Shi'i shrines in Najaf and Karbala that his army had destroyed in 1991. Yet at the same time , Saddam continued to check all signs of Shi'i opposition to his rule . The Iraqi leader sanctioned a series of killings of Shi'i clerics in ...
... Shi'i Islam . In this book I discuss aspects of this debate as manifested in the struggle among Shi'is in Najaf during the 1930s over the future of the Shi'i college institution ( madrasa ) in the period following the establishment of ...
... Shi'i Islam and society . While shedding important light on Iranian Shi'ism , these studies have also influ- enced our perception of the nature of Shi'i Islam in general , which has come to be identified with Iranian culture and social ...
Yitzhak Nakash. the Gulf War and its aftermath , to elucidate Shi'i aspirations and the position of Shi'i Islam in contemporary Iraq . The study is concerned with the following major questions : How was modern Iraqi Shi'i society formed ...
... Shi'i Islam as a unifying religion was essential to the maintenance of the various classes , ethnic groups , and tribal and urban elements that consti- tuted the new society , as well as to the expansion of the Shi'i polity . Indeed ...
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The State and the Shiis | 73 |
The Transformation of Rituals and Religious Practices | 139 |
The Decline of Financial and Intellectual Institutions | 203 |
CONCLUSION | 269 |
The Gulf War and its Aftermath | 273 |
The Constitution of the Buraq Quarter of Najaf | 283 |
Important Shii Shrines Tombs and Holy Sites in Iraq | 285 |
Shii Holy Burial Sites | 287 |
Bibliography | 289 |
Index | 303 |