Akeel Abbas

Between the Ideal and the Real

Shiite Purism and the Dilemma of Modernity in Iraq

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Produktbeschreibung

This book deals with the Islamic Shia version of purism as the cornerstone of its faith, showing how this purism manifested itself in the story of Iraq as a state and Shias as a group of people by complicating the process of integrating the latter into the former.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9781538192924
• ISBN-10: 1538192926
• Artikelnr.: 70062650

Autorenporträt

Akeel Abbas, PhD, a DC-based Middle East specialist, taught for years in several American universities inside and outside the US. His research interests include national and religious identities and modernity and democratization in the Middle East. Abbas regularly writes journalistic pieces in Arabic and English about the Middle East and Iraq.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Purity as a Guarantee of Epistemological Certitude: A Shia
Theory of
Knowledge
Chapter 2: The "Mind" as a Purist Moment: The Conflict between the Real and
the Ideal within Shiism
Chapter 3: Modernity as a Challenge to the Purist Network of Shiism
Chapter 4: Husseini Mourning Folk Poetry as a Purist Register: A Mirror for
the Transformation of Identity
Chapter 5: Componentialism: Iraqi Shiite Purism Put to the Test after 2003
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Author
Index