The Shi'is of Iraq / / Yitzhak Nakash.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Nakash, Yitzhak,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION to the 2003 Paperback Edition -- A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- PART ONE.The Formative Years -- CHAPTER ONE.The Making of Iraqi Shi'i Society -- CHAPTER TWO.Years of Upheaval -- PART TWO.The State and the Shi'is -- CHAPTER THREE.Exercising Social Control -- CHAPTER FOUR.The Search for Political Representation -- PART THREE. The Transformation of Rituals and Religious Practices -- CHAPTER FIVE.The Commemoration of 'Ashura -- CHAPTER SIX.Pilgrimage to the Shrine Cities and the Cult of the Saints -- CHAPTER SEVEN.The Corpse Traffic -- PART FOUR: The Decline of Financial and Intellectual Institutions -- CHAPTER EIGHT.Shi'i Money and the Shrine Cities -- CHAPTER NINE.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 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX