28 Pages
by
Routledge
28 Pages
by
Routledge
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Iraqi Shiism is undergoing profound changes, leading to new elaborations of the relationship between clerics and democratic principles in an Islamic state. The Najaf tradition of thinking about Shiite Islam and the modern state in Iraq, which first developed during the Iranian constitutional revolution of 1905–1911, rejects the principle that supreme power in an Islamic state must be in clerical... Read more
The Ayatollahs and Democracy in Iraq
Biography
Juan R. I. Cole is Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History at the University of Michigan.
