Saddam Husayn and Islam, 1968-2003: Ba`thi Iraq from Secularism to Faith

by Amatzia Baram

Saddam Hussein and Islam, 1968-2003, offers an intellectual history of the Bathi Party from the 1940s through 2003. Amatzia Baram focuses on the transition from its early insistence on "unity, freedom, and socialism" to its Islamization by the time it was toppled by U.S. forces in 2003, a change largely impelled by the need to rally Iraqis against Iran during their war of 1980-88. Baram reveals signs that Saddam Hussein himself became...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421415828
• ISBN13: 9781421415826
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher