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The Shi'is of Iraq
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The Shi'is of Iraq |
Indispensable volume (in concert with a couple of political histories like Toby Dodge's) for those wanting to come to grips with the situation in Iraq. I haven't read the most current volume, which apparently adds a (reportedly somewhat ephemeral) chapter on the current situation, but for the most part this is a social history of the Shi'i community from the 19th century (when it started out as a minority, a situation that altered as a major demographic shift from a predominantly nomadic to a mostly settled society took place) through the mid-twentieth.
Posted by Tamerlane at March 7, 2006 07:21 PM
Filed Under: Iraq
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