The Shīʻite movement in Iraq / Faleh A. Jabar.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-376) and index.

Foreword / Sami Zubaida -- Introduction: The US, war and Iraqi Shi'ism -- Overview -- Islamism, fundamentalism, communalism and the Nation-state -- The Da'wa founding group: defining the self (1960-64) -- Social origins and actors -- The formation of the Mama'at al-"Ulama in Najaf, 1960 -- The Da'wa party, 1963-68: from universalism to particularism -- Sacred money -- The transmission of knowledge: the traditional Madrasa and its decline -- The rise and centralization of Marja'ism -- 'Ashura and the Arb'in: popular culture and the politicizing of redemptive suffering -- From peaceful protest to bloody confrontation -- The particularist-political model -- Radicalization : 1979-82 -- The formation and development of SAIRI: Coercive unification, war and schism, 1982-90 -- Wartime, the Diaspora and the 1991 uprisings -- Political theory -- Socioeconomic doctrine.