Author: Nakash, Yitzhak
Title: The Shi'is of Iraq
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1994). orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, xiv,312 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction; The Formative Years: The Making of Iraqi Shi'i Society: Iraq the Frontier; The Shrine Cities; The Conversion of the Tribes to Shi'ism; The Nature of the Conversion; Years of Upheaval: The Impact of Two Revolutions; Muslim Unity & the Jihad Movement; The 1919 Plebiscite; The 1920 Revolt; The State & the Shi'is: Exercising Social Control: Containing the Mujtahids; Managing the Tribal Shaykhs; Baghdad & the Shrine Cities; The Blow to the Status of Persians; Human Dilemmas; The Search for Political Representation: Recognising the State; The 1935 Revolt; The Bid for Power; The Radical Options; The Transformation of Rituals & Religious Practices: The Commemoration of 'Ashura': The Nature of the Muharram Observances; The Mujtahids & the Muharram Observances; The State & 'Ashura'; Pilgrimage to the Shrine Cities & the Cult of the Saints:Foreign Pilgrimage; Internal Visitation; The Corpse Traffic: Development & Socioeconomic Functions; The Religious Creed versus the Social Order; The State & the Corpse Traffic; The Decline of Financial & Intellectual Institutions: Shi'i Money & the Shrine Cities: The Building of an Economic Base; The Oudh Bequest; The Consequences of Dependency on Foreign Funds; The Shi'i Madrasa in Iraq: Features & Functions; Signs of Decline; A New Iraqi Shi'i Madrasa; Conclusion; Epilogue: The Gulf War & Its Aftermath; Appendices: The Constitution of the Buraq Quarter of Najaf; Important Shi' i Shrines, Tombs & Holy Sites in Iraq; Shi'i Holy Burial Sites.

Keywords: Iraqi Political Sociology, Shi'ias Shiites, Iraq Shi'ism Shi'ia, Shiism Shia Shi'ite, Ethnology Politics, Ethnic Ethnography, Islam Islamic, History of Religion, Shi'ites