State and Sufism in Iraq

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

David Jordan(Autor*in)

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Erschienen am 30. Dezember 2021

310 Seiten

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State and Sufism in Iraq is the first comprehensive study of the Iraqi Ba?th regime's (r. 1968-2003) entanglement with Sufis and of Sunni Sufi Islam in Iraq from the late Ottoman period until 2003 and beyond.

For far too long, the secular and authoritarian Ba?th 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 Ba?thist-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 Ba?th 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.

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"David Jordan's new book shines a bright light on a hitherto largely ignored aspect of recent Iraqi history: the revival of Sufi thought and Sufi networks during Saddam's final years and the mobilization and reinvigoration of these networks in the wake of the American invasion. Essential reading on contemporary Iraq."

Martin van Bruinessen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

"Based on extremely rich source material, State and Sufism in Iraq provides novel and surprising insights into the political and religious complexities of Ba?thi Iraq, at the same time opening fresh perspectives on the cultural strategies of Arab nationalist regimes in the Middle East."

Stefan Reichmuth, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

"Contribution puissamment originale a l'histoire de l'Irak contemporain, l'etude ferme et dense de David Jordan sur les rapports entre Etat et soufisme s'ancre dans une vraie profondeur historique, de l'Empire ottoman jusqu'aux cheikhs soufis insurges de l'Irak d'apres 2003. Sortant d'une vision rapide des habituels clivages entre chiites et sunnites, soufis et islamistes, Etat et societe, David Jordan souligne en definitive le role fondamental des genealogies soufies et des descendants du Prophete dans l'histoire politique irakienne au XXe siecle et au debut du XXIe siecle."

Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Universite Paris-Sorbonne, France

"As a strongly original contribution to the contemporary history of Iraq, the solidly founded and dense study of David Jordan on the relationship between state and Sufism is anchored in a truly historical depth, from the Ottoman Empire to the insurgent Sufi shaykhs in Iraq after 2003. Going beyond a hasty view of the usual divides between Shi?is and Sunnis, Sufis and Islamists, and the state and society, David Jordan conclusively highlights the fundamental role of Sufi genealogies and descendants of the Prophet in Iraqi political history in the twentieth and at the beginning of the twenty-first century."

Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Universite Paris-Sorbonne, France

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