The Shia of Iraq

I’ve just finished reading an interesting book about the history of the Iraqi Shia/Shiite. Please see the detail of the book at the end of the post (reference). This book is divided into four sections. Each section contains two or three chapters.

The first section is about the making of the Iraqi Shiite Society. How /when the Iraqi society began to convert or settled in the area and what’s the nature of this conversion. This is followed by events before and after 1920 revolution.

Section two is about social, religion and politics of Iraq including the management of the mujtahids, tribal shaykhs, the foreigners, the shrine cities and 1935 revolution.

Section three is about the commemoration of Ashura, the pilgrimage and the burial.

Section four is about Shia money in the Shrine cities, Shia madressa and also the rise of Baath political party.

I hope I’m able to summarize interesting part from the book here.


Reference
Yitzhak Nakash, The Shia of Iraq, 1994, Princeton University Press, ISBN: 13579108642