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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... in this book . Shi'is are a majority of 55 to 60 percent in Iraq , but they have been dominated by a Sunni minority elite since the establishment of modern Iraq in 1921. The claim of Sunnis to rule Iraq INTRODUCTION TO THE 2003 EDITION ...
... establishment of nation - states in the Middle East . While the reformers sought to detach Shi'i education from the influence of the past and reshape it in confor- mity with modern times , the conservatives insisted on preserving the ...
... establishment of a more unified religion and a more cohesive value system embracing the urban dwellers in the shrine cities and the tribesmen of their hinterlands . Both the settlement and the conversion of the tribesmen increased the ...
... establishment of the Safavid state in 1501. Since then Shi'i Islam has been the state religion in Iran ( save for a short period after the Sunni Afghan occupation of Isfahan in 1722 ) , and on the whole the state supported the Shi'i ...
... establishment of modern Iraq . And in contrast with the close interaction between the bazaaris and the ulama in Iran , the Shi'i mercantile classes in Iraq were on the whole unwilling to channel funds into the support of religious ...
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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 |