State and Sufism in Iraq : Building a “Moderate Islam” Under Saddam Husayn (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Language and Transliteration Introduction Part I: Sufi Islam and the Challenges of the Modern Iraqi Nation State (1876?1979) 1. Islam and the Decline of Sufism After the End of the Ottoman Empire 2. The Rise of the Ba?th Party and its Early Nationalization of Islam 3. Sufis Under the Early Ba?th: First Links to the Regime Part II: State Patronage of Islam During the Iran?Iraq War and Beyond (1980?1989) 4. The Religious Propaganda of a Secular Regime 5. The New Prominence of Sufi Scholars 6. New Opportunities for Sufi Orders Part III: The Faith Campaign and the State-Sponsored Revival of Sufism (1993?2003) 7. Sufism to Counter Moral Decay and Wahhabism 8. Sufi Ecumenism Against Sectarianism 9. The Entanglement of Sufis with the State Elite Conclusion Afterword: The Naqshband? Army and the Legacy of the Ba?th Regime’s Sufi Revival After 2003 Bibliography Index