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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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