Patriotic Ayatollahs: Nationalism in Post-Saddam Iraq

ISBN-13: 9781501715211 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Caroleen Marji Sayej

Opis

Patriotic Ayatollahs explores the contributions of senior clerics in state and nation-building after the 2003 Iraq war. Caroleen Sayej suggests that the four so-called Grand Ayatollahs, the highest-ranking clerics of Iraqi Shiism, took on a new and unexpected political role after the fall of Saddam Hussein.Drawing on previously unexamined...