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005			20240726104758.0
008			171012s2018 nyu ob 001 0 eng
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040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dNT
020			_a9780190843328 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	1	0	_aBP173 _b.C667 2018
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aHelfont, Samuel, _e1
245	1	0	_aCompulsion in religion : _bSaddam Hussein, Islam, and the roots of insurgencies in Iraq / _cSamuel Helfont.
260			_aNew York, NY : _bOxford University Press, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aIntroduction : religion and authoritarianism in Saddam's Iraq -- _tThe penetration of Iraq's religious landscape 1979-1989 -- _tSaddam takes control -- _tCo-opting and coercing religion in Saddam's Iraq -- _tCo-opting and coercing Shi'ism -- _tSuppressing the Islamist opposition -- _tAddressing the limits of coercion and co-optation -- _tThe Gulf War and its aftermath 1990-1993 -- _tContinuity and change in the Gulf War -- _tIraq's religious landscape in the wake of the Gulf War -- _tThe faith campaign 1993-2003 -- _tA transformed religious landscape -- _tThe regime and the Shi'is in the 1990s -- _tMechanisms of control -- _tPutting the system to work -- _tThe invasion of Iraq : war and the emergence of religious insurgencies -- _tAmerican misconceptions about Iraq and the 2003 invasion -- _tEmergence of religious insurgencies in Iraq -- _tConclusion : Saddam the counter-insurgent and other reflections on ruling Iraq.
520	0		_aThis book draws on newly available archives from the Iraqi state and Ba'th Party to present a revisionist history of Saddam Hussein's religious policies. The point of doing this, other than to correct the current understanding of Saddam's political use of religion through his presidency, is to argue that the policies promoted then directly contributed to the rise of religious insurgencies in post-2003 Iraq as well as the current and probably future crises in the country. In looking at Saddam's policies in the 1990s, many have interpreted his support for state religion as evidence of a dramatic shift away from Arab nationalism, toward political Islam. But this book shows that the 'Faith Campaign' he launched during this time was the culmination of a plan to use religion for political ends, begun upon his assumption of the Iraqi presidency in 1979. At this time, Saddam began constructing the institutional capacity to control and monitor Iraqi religious institutions. The resulting authoritarian structures allowed him to employ Islamic symbols and rhetoric in public policy, but in a controlled manner. By the 1990s, these policies became fully realized. Following the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, religion remained prominent in Iraqi public life, but the system that Saddam had put in place to contain it was destroyed. Sunni and Shi'i extremists who had been suppressed and silenced were now free. They thrived in an atmosphere where religion had been actively promoted, and formed militant organizations which have torn the country apart since.
530			_a2 _ub
600	1	0	_aHussein, Saddam, _d1937-2006.
610	2	0	_aḤizb al-Ba.Ath al-.AArabī al-Ishtirākī (Iraq)
650		0	_aIslam and state _zIraq _xHistory.
650		0	_aIslam and politics _zIraq _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password. _uhttpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1729637&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hBP. _m2018 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
994			_a92 _bNT
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell