The Shi'is of Iraq / Yitzhak Nakash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nakash, Yitzhak, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shiites.

Shīʻah.

Shīʻah--Iraq.

Shiites--Iraq--History.

Iraq.

Iraq--History--1534-1901.

Iraq--Religious life and customs.

Iraq--History--1921-.

Iraq--History--1534-1921.

Local Subjects:

Iraq--History--1534-1901.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction to the 2003 Paperback Edition

Introduction

part one.The Formative Years. The Making of Iraqi Shi'i Society ; Years of Upheaval

part two. The State and the Shi'is. Exercising Social Control ; The Search for Political Representation ; The Commemoration of 'Ashura ; Pilgrimage to the Shrine Cities and the Cult of the Saints ; The Corpse Traffic

part four. The Decline of Financial and Intellectual Institutions ; Shi'i Money and the Shrine Cities ; The Shi'i Madrasa in Iraq

Conclusion

Epilogue: The Gulf War and its Aftermath

Appendix 1.The Constitution of the Buraq Quarter of Najaf

Appendix 2.Important Shi'i Shrines, Tombs, and Holy Sites in Iraq

Appendix 3.Shi'i Holy Burial Sites.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's website, viewed May 23, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691115757

0691115753

9780691190440

0691190445

OCLC:

907602060