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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... Religious Creed versus the Social Order The State and the Corpse Traffic 192 197 PART FOUR : The Decline of Financial and Intellectual Institutions CHAPTER EIGHT Shi'i Money and the Shrine Cities 205 The Building of an Economic Base 206 ...
... religious practices ? In what ways did Iraqi and Iranian Shi'i Islam differ in their organizational forms ? What were ... religion and a more cohesive value system embracing the urban dwellers in the shrine cities and the tribesmen of ...
... religion . At the top of the hierarchy stood the grand mujtahids , whose function was to supervise this partnership and to control such resources as derived from religious taxes and contributions . The process of Shi'i state formation ...
... 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 religion and the ulama well into the twentieth century . Moreover , religious life in ...
... religious institutions and causes . The rise of the modern state reinforced the differences between Shi'i Islam in Iran and Iraq in the twentieth century . In Iran , the centralization and modernization programs of Reza Shah and his son ...
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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 |