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Author(s): Fanar Haddad
ISBN(s): 9780199327386, 0199327386
Edition: 1
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Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199327386 
ISBN 13: 9780199327386
Author: Fanar Haddad

Viewing Iraq from the outside is made easier by compartmentalising its people (at least the Arabs among them) into Shi’as and Sunnis. But can such broad terms, inherently resistant to accurate quantification, description and definition, ever be a useful reflection of any society? If not, are we to discard the terms ‘Shi’a’ and ‘Sunni’ in seeking to understand Iraq? Or are we to deny their relevance and ignore them when considering Iraqi society? How are we to view the common Iraqi injunction that ‘we are all brothers’ or that ‘we have no Shi’as and Sunnis’ against the fact of sectarian civil war in 2006? Are they friends or enemies? Are they united or divided; indeed, are they Iraqis or are they Shi’as and Sunnis? Fanar Haddad provides the first comprehensive examination of sectarian relations and sectarian identities in Iraq. Rather than treating the subject by recourse to broad-based categorisation, his analysis recognises the inherent ambiguity of group identity. The salience of sectarian identity and views towards self and other are neither fixed nor constant; rather, they are part of a continuously fluctuating dynamic that sees the relevance of sectarian identity advancing and receding according to context and to wider socioeconomic and political conditions. What drives the salience of sectarian identity? How are sectarian identities negotiated in relation to Iraqi national identity and what role do sectarian identities play in the social and political lives of Iraqi Sunnis and Shi’as? These are some of the questions explored in this book with a particular focus on the two most significant turning points in modern Iraqi sectarian relations: the uprisings of March 1991 and the fall of the Ba’ath in 2003. Haddad explores how sectarian identities are negotiated and seeks finally to put to rest the alarmist and reductionist accounts that seek either to portray all things Iraqi in sectarian terms or to reduce sectarian identity to irrelevance.

Sectarianism in Iraq Antagonistic Visions of Unity 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction
2. Approaching a Theory of Sectarianism
Defining Sectarianism
Drivers of Sectarian Identity
External Influence
Economic Competition
Competing Myth-Symbol Complexes
Contested Cultural Ownership of the Nation
‘Ethnohistories’ and the Formation of Sectarian Identity
Assertive, Passive and Banal Sectarianism
3. Sectarianism in Iraq
Iraqi Nationalism between State, Sunnis and Shi’as
Sectarian Relations and Dominant Narratives of the Iraqi Nation-State
The Conflation of Sectarian Identity with Ethnicity
The Suppression of Shi’a Identity
The Interaction of Sunni and Shi’a identities
‘We’re all Brothers’
Class and Geographic Boundaries
Sectarian Relations in Social Relations
A Final Qualifier
4. The Events of March 1991
Beginnings
Leadership and Coordination
The End of the Uprisings
Iran and the Uprisings
Contentious Symbolism
The Consequences of the Events of 1991
5. The Sanctions-Era
The Economic Breakdown
Neo-Tribalism
The Religious Revival
Al-Hamla al-Imaniya
Sectarian Identity
Conclusion
6. Sectarian Relations and the Mythology of 1991
The State’s Response
The Page of Betrayal and Treason
Al-Intifada al-Sha’abaniyah
7. Sectarian Relations in Post-2003 Iraq
The New Iraq
Sectarian Identity in Post-2003 Iraq
Outsiders, Insiders and the Formalisation of Sectarian Politics
The Collision of Myth-Symbol Complexes in Post-2003 Iraq
Sectarian Nationalism in Post-2003 Iraq
The Contest for Cultural Ownership of Iraq
An Old Symbol in a New Environment: the Mass Graves
Iraq, the Arab World and Arab Identity
Arab Fighters in the Sectarian Imagination
Competing Victimhoods
8. Civil War
What is a Civil War?
Ethnic Conflict
Sectarian Relations and Sectarian Civil War
The Symbols of Assertive and Aggressive Sectarianism
Fixing the Breakdown

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