State and Sufism in Iraq: Building a "Moderate Islam" Under Saddam Husayn

by David Jordan

State and Sufism in Iraq is the first comprehensive study of the Iraqi Baʿth regime's (r. 1968-2003) entanglement with Sufis and of Sunnī Sufi Islam in Iraq from the late Ottoman period until 2003 and beyond.

For far too long, the secular and authoritarian Baʿth regime has been reduced to the dictator Saddam Husayn and portrayed as antireligious. Its growing political employment of Islam during the 1990s, in turn, has been...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032118202
• ISBN13: 9781032118208
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"