Shi'is of Iraq
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Hafez
Hajji
Hamid Algar
Hikmat Sulayman
Husayn ibn Ali
Hussein bin Ali
Ibn Babawayh
Iranian Revolution
Iraq
Iraqi Army
Iraqi Communist Party
Iraqi nationalism
Iraqis
Iraqis in Iran
Islam
Islam in Iraq
Ja'far al-Sadiq
Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani
Karbala
King of Syria
Kurdistan
Kurds in Iraq
Muawiyah I
Muhammad al-Mahdi
Muhammad Baqir Majlisi
Muhsin al-Hakim
Mujahideen
Murad III
Musa al-Kadhim
Naqib al-ashraf
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
Nizam al-Mulk
Puritans
Quraysh
Radicalism (historical)
Reza Shah
Roy Mottahedeh
Ruhollah Khomeini
Saddam Hussein
Sanctions against Iraq
Saud of Saudi Arabia
Sayyid
Sharia
Sharif of Mecca
Sheikh
Shia Islam
Sunni Islam
Tatbir
The Iraqis (party)
Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad
Umayyad Caliphate
Usuli
Wahhabism
Yasin al-Hashimi
Product details
- ISBN 9780691115757
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 16 Feb 2003
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Yitzhak Nakash teaches Middle Eastern history at Brandeis University. His publications on Iraq and Shi'i Islam have gained recognition in the United States and Europe as well as in the Arab world and in Iran. He is currently completing a new book focusing on Shi'ism and nationalism in the Arab world.
