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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... , Saddam had regained substantial influence over an area he had been yearning to recover since the Gulf War . Sad- dam also succeeded in creating a rift within the allied INTRODUCTION Introduction to the 2003 Paperback Edition.
... influence of the past and reshape it in confor- mity with modern times , the conservatives insisted on preserving the curricula and teaching methods as they had existed in the time of their predecessors . At the turn of the twenty ...
... influence in the state . My task in the first chapter is to show that the policies of successive Sunni Iraqi governments split the pre - monarchic Shi'i elite , reduced the position of Najaf and Kar- bala vis - à - vis Baghdad , and ...
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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 |