State and Sufism in Iraq: Building a Moderate Islam Under Saddam Husayn

ISBN-13: 9781032118208 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 294 str.

Germany) Jordan David (Ruhr Universitat Bochum

Opis

State and Sufism in Iraq is the first comprehensive study of the Iraqi Baʿth regime’s (r. 1968–2003) entanglement with Sufis and of Sunnī Sufi Islam in Iraq from the late Ottoman period until 2003 and beyond.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Sufi Islam and the Challenges of the Modern Iraqi Nation State (1876–1979)  1. Islam and the Decline of Sufism After the End of the Ottoman Empire  2. The Rise of the Baʿth Party and its Early Nationalization of Islam  3. Sufis Under the Early Baʿth: First Links to the Regime  Part II: State Patronage of Islam During the Iran–Iraq War and Beyond (1980–1989)  4. The Religious Propaganda of a Secular Regime  5. The New Prominence of Sufi Scholars  6. New Opportunities for Sufi Orders  Part III: The Faith Campaign and the State-Sponsored Revival of Sufism (1993–2003)  7. Sufism to Counter Moral Decay and Wahhabism  8. Sufi Ecumenism Against Sectarianism  9. The Entanglement of Sufis with the State Elite  Conclusion  Afterword: The Naqshbandī Army and the Legacy of the Baʿth Regime’s Sufi Revival After 2003  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

David Jordan (Ph. D. 2019 Hamburg) is Research Associate for Islamic Studies at Bochum University. His research focusses on Sufism and the entanglement of religion and politics in the early modern and modern history of the Middle East. His publications include: "Jaysh rijāl al-ṭarīqa al-naqshbandīya: The Sufi Resistance of the Former Baʿth Party in Iraq" (2020).