Abbas Kadhim: Reclaiming Iraq | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780292756892 | Reclaiming Iraq | Abbas Kadhim | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2012

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While some scholars would argue that there was no "Iraq" before King Faysal's coronation in 1921, Iraqi history spans fourteen centuries of tribal communities that endured continual occupation in their historic homeland, including Mongol invasions in the thirteenth century and subsequent Ottoman and British invasions. An Iraqi identity was established long before the League of Nations defined the nation-state of Iraq in 1932. Drawing on neglected primary sources and other crucial accounts, including memoirs and correspondence, Reclaiming Iraq puts the 1920 revolt against British occupation in a new light-one that emphasizes the role of rural fighters between June and November of that year.

While most accounts of the revolution have been shaped by the British administration and successive Iraqi governments, Abbas Kadhim sets out to explore the reality that the intelligentsia of Baghdad and other cities in the region played an ideological role but did not join in the fighting. His history depicts a situation we see even today in conflicts in the Middle East, where most military engagement is undertaken by rural tribes that have no central base of power. In the study of the modern Iraqi state, Kadhim argues, Faysal's coronation has detracted from the more significant, earlier achievements of local attempts at self-rule. With clarity and insight, this work offers an alternative perspective on the dawn of modern Iraq.

Über den Autor

Abbas Kadhim is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and a visiting scholar at Stanford University. He is the editor of Handbook of Governance in the Middle East and North Africa, and his translations include Shi'a Sects.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780292756892
ISBN-10:	0292756895
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Kadhim, Abbas
Hersteller:	University of Texas Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Abbas Kadhim
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.11.2012
Gewicht:	0,371 kg