The Shi'is of Iraq /

The Shi'is of Iraq / / Yitzhak Nakash.

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 s...

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

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