| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
01746 a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9780190843311 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
322.10956709049 |
| Item number |
HEL-C |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Helfont, Samuel |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Compulsion in religion |
| Sub Title |
Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the roots of insurgencies in Iraq |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher |
Oxford University Press |
| Year of publication |
2018 |
| Place of publication |
New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
ix, 290p. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Include Bibliography and Index<br/> |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Samuel Helfont draws on extensive research with Ba'thist archives to investigate the roots of the religious insurgencies that erupted in Iraq following the American-led invasion in 2003. In looking at Saddam Hussein's policies in the 1990s, many have interpreted his support for state-sponsored religion as evidence of a dramatic shift away from Arab nationalism toward political Islam. While Islam did play a greater role in the regime's symbols and Saddam's statements in the 1990s than it had in earlier decades, the regime's internal documents challenge this theory. The "Faith Campaign" Saddam launched during this period 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. Saddam ultimately promoted a Ba'thist interpretation of religion that subordinated it to Arab nationalism, rather than depicting it as an independent or primary political identity. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
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| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Politics and government |
| Form subdivision |
Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006 |
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Islam and state |
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Islam and politic |
| Geographic subdivision |
Iraq |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
