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. For far too long, the secular and authoritarian
Baʿth regime has been reduced to the dictator Saddam Husayn and
portrayed as antireligious. Its growing political employment of
Islam during the 1990s, in turn, has been interpreted either as an
abstract Baʿthist-nationalist Islam or as an ideological U-turn
from secularism to a form of Islamism that ultimately contributed
to the spread of Islamist terrorism after 2003. Broadening the
narrow focus on Saddam Husayn, this book analyses other leading
regime figures, their close entanglement with Sufis, and Baʿth
religious politics of a state-sponsored revival of Sufi Islam and
Iraq’s broad and distinct Sufi culture. It is the story of a
secular regime’s search for "moderate" Islam in order to overcome
the challenges of radical Islamism and sectarianism in Iraq. The
book’s two-pronged interdisciplinary approach that deals equally
with politics and Sufi Islam in Iraq makes it a valuable
contribution to scholars and students in Islamic and Middle Eastern
Studies, Religious Anthropology and Sociology, Political Science,
and International Relations.
General
Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Routledge Sufi Series |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
David Jordan
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
294 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-211821-5 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-03-211821-0 |
Barcode: |
9781032118215 |
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