Between the Ideal and the Real: Shiite Purism and the Dilemma of Modernity in Iraq

by Akeel Abbas

This book deals with the Islamic Shia version of purism as the cornerstone of its faith, showing how this purism manifested itself in the story of Iraq as a state and Shias as a group of people by complicating the process of integrating the latter into the former.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538192926
• ISBN13: 9781538192924
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"