The Shi'a of Samarra: The Heritage and Politics of a Community in Iraq by

The Shi'a of Samarra: The Heritage and Politics of a Community in Iraq

Library of Modern Middle East Studies

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The assault on Samarra, which was built in the period of the Abbasid caliphate in the ninth century CE, therefore came to represent for many a symbol of the destructive civil conflict which engulfed Iraq following the 2003 US-led invasion. The Shi...

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