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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... nineteenth century as the bulk of Iraq's Arab nomadic tribes settled down and took up agricul- ture . These tribesmen , both those who converted to Shi'ism and those who remained Sunni largely because they kept to their desert way of ...
... nineteenth century as the bulk of Iraq's Arab nomadic tribes settled down and took up agriculture . This development ... century set the stage for this process of Shi'i state formation . The development and expansion of the polity was ...
... century , when leading mujtahids formulated a theory defining the nature of the state which they had envisaged and ... nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . Al- though in all four cases the religious leadership sought to use Islamic ...
... century reflected the essentially different characters of Shi'i religion and society in the two coun- tries . The ... Nineteenth Century , ” AAS 15 ( 1981 ) : 139 ; Nikki Keddie , “ The Roots of the Ulama's Power in Modern Iran , ” SI 29 ...
... century . In Iran , the centralization and modernization programs of Reza Shah and his son , Muhammad Reza Shah ... nineteenth century . In the second chapter I will show how the Shi'i mujtahids devel- oped a political theory which ...
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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 |