The Shi'is of Iraq

The Shi'is of Iraq

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Fouad Ajami, School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University : The most authoritative account we have on the Shi'a of Iraq. . . . Nakash's book provides a powerful corrective to earlier books on Iraq which have been battered by recent events. No reader who goes through Nakash's work will fail to be moved by the historical vistas he opens up.

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Nakash's account of the process of community formation in Iraq has fascinating implications for modern Middle Eastern history. In that broad historical revolution which is the settlement of the Middle Eastern tribes, we can see that the agents were: Sufism in most of the Sunni countries; fundamentalist Islam in Arabia; and Shi'ism in Iraq and Iran. In each case, the primitive Islam of the tribes takes on a new form as an accompaniment to a fundamental change in economic and social life.

The Shi'is of Iraq

The Shi'is of Iraq,Yitzhak Nakash,Princeton University Press,0691115753,General,History,History: World,Middle East - General,Sociology,Anthropology,Asian / Middle Eastern history,Contemporary non-Christian cults & sects,History / Middle East,Iraq,Islam,Middle Eastern Studies,Political Science and International Relations,Political science & theory

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