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Princeton University Press
February 2003
On Sale: January 27, 2003
340 pages
ISBN: 0691115753
EAN: 9780691115757
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Non-Fiction Political
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.
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