Patriotic Ayatollahs: Nationalism in Post-Saddam Iraq

Author/Contributor(s):	Sayej, Caroleen Marji
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	04/15/2018
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Patriotic Ayatollahs explores the contributions of senior clerics in state and nation-building after the 2003 Iraq war. Caroleen Sayej suggests that the four so-called Grand Ayatollahs, the highest-ranking clerics of Iraqi Shiism, took on a new and unexpected political role after the fall of Saddam Hussein.Drawing on previously unexamined...