عنوان

Compulsion in religion: The authoritarian roots of Saddam Hussein's Islam

شماره

TL48334

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Compulsion in religion: The authoritarian roots of Saddam Hussein's Islam

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Samuel Helfont

نام ساير پديدآوران

Haykel, Bernard

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Princeton University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2015

نام خاص و کميت اثر

293

متن يادداشت

Committee members: Haykel, Bernard; Khoury, Dina; Schayegh, Cyrus; Zaman, Qasim

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-89215-4

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

نظم درجات

Near Eastern Studies

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Princeton University

امتياز متن

2015

متن يادداشت

This dissertation investigates the relationship between religion and state in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. It is based on extensive research with Iraqi archives. The dissertation pays particular attention to the Ba'thist regime's strategy of authoritarian entrenchment as a means of instrumentalizing religion to achieve its political goals. It closely follows Saddam Hussein's strategy of co-opting, coercing, and creating a religious landscape. The Iraqi archival records reveal that Saddam's increasing and well-documented references to Islam in the last decade of his rule resulted from the regime's integration of Iraq's religious leadership into its authoritarian system. Saddam's subsequent perception of control over Islamic discourse in Iraq afforded him a hitherto unprecedented level of comfort to introduce religion into the public sphere. Furthermore, the existence of newly co-opted religious leaders provided the regime with the means to spread a particular interpretation of religion that reinforced Ba'thist rule in Iraq, and undermined its adversaries around the globe. This depiction of the Ba'thist regime's instrumentalization of Islam implies that its perception of control, rather than an ideological shift, was at the heart of its changing policies toward religion. Accordingly, this dissertation's investigation of the relationship between religion and politics under an authoritarian system moves beyond debates over ideology. Instead, it focuses on the authoritarian structures that are necessary for such ideologies to operate. Creating such structures in Iraq was no easy task. It involved not only the use of extreme violence, but also subtle strategies of co-optation. Saddam's regime was particularly skillful in transforming time-honored religious institutions into political tools. Access to the regime's internal records provided the opportunity to meticulously track that process as well as to document resistance to it by Iraqi religious actors for the first time. The dissertation finishes by arguing that a failure to understand the relationship between religion and state in Saddam's Iraq was a major contributing factor to the insurgency that developed following the American-led invasion of the country in 2003.

موضوع مستند نشده

Religious history; Near Eastern Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Ba'th;Iraq;Islam;Saddam;Society;State

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Arabi, Rasha

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Haykel, Bernard

تقسيم فرعي

Near Eastern Studies

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Princeton University

شماره بازیابی

1707688334; 3712409

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y