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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... Shrine Cities 18 The Conversion of the Tribes to Shiʻism 25 The Nature of the Conversion 43 CHAPTER TWO Years of Upheaval The Impact of Two Revolutions Muslim Unity and the Jihad Movement The 1919 Plebiscite The 1920 Revolt PART TWO ...
... Shrine Cities and the Cult of the Saints 163 Foreign Pilgrimage 164 Internal Visitation 173 CHAPTER SEVEN The Corpse Traffic 184 Development and Socioeconomic Functions 185 The Religious Creed versus the Social Order The State and the ...
... shrine cities vis - à - vis Baghdad ? What are the basic political aspirations of the Iraqi Shi'is ? What are the ... shrine cities and the tribesmen of their hinterlands . Both the settlement and the conversion of the tribesmen ...
... shrine cities , the urban dwellers provided the tribesmen with access to marketing and organized religion . At the top of the hierarchy stood the grand mujtahids , whose function was to supervise this partnership and to control such ...
... shrine cities as Najaf and Karbala . The Iraqi government undermined the two cities ' position as desert market - towns , and curtailed the Shi'i clergy's income from charities , the pilgrimage , and the corpse traffic ( the practice of ...
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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 |