Research Catalog

Title

Understanding Iraq : society, culture, and personality / Ali Wardi ; translated with a foreword by Fuad Baali.

Author

Wardī, ʻAlī

Publication

Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.

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Details

Description

129 p.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Dirāsah fī ṭabīʻat al-mujtamaʻ al-ʻIrāqī. English

Alternative Title

Dirāsah fī ṭabīʻat al-mujtamaʻ al-ʻIrāqī.

Subject

• Social structure > Iraq
• Personality > Iraq
• Culture conflict > Iraq
• Iraq > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface --Foreword -- Introduction -- The conflict between Nomadism and Urbanism -- A wrong theory -- Nomadism and Urbanism : a comparison -- Toward an Arabian sociology -- Significance of Ibn Khaldun -- The origin of civilization -- The story of Adam -- Nomadism -- Bedawa's patterns of culture -- The Bedouin character -- Two contradictory attitudes -- Bedouins vs. Mongols -- Evaluation -- Nomadism and war tendency -- Tribal spirit (Asabiyah) -- Significance of lineage -- Protection of women -- Raid vs. occupation -- Property rights -- Naming -- Bedouin's dignity -- Respect for power -- Tendency toward freedom -- Individuality -- Sword vs. "tongue" -- Final note -- The depth of Bedouin culture -- Savings -- Jealousy -- Hypocrisy -- Allegiance -- Religiosity -- Democracy -- Final note -- Iraq under the Ottoman occupation -- Bedawa under the Ottoman rule -- Baghdad -- The Ottoman government -- Ottoman-Iran conflict -- General conclusion -- The clash of cultures in Iraq -- Recent tribal changes -- The southern tribes marsh -- Arabs -- Middle-Euphrates tribes -- Urban population -- Constant clashes in Iraq -- Clashes between tribes -- Clashes between government and tribes -- Clashes between districts -- Clashes between cities and tribes -- City-government clashes -- Clashes between cities -- Personality development in rural areas -- The rural setting -- Hospitality -- Giving refuge -- Autocracy -- The Peasant's behavior -- Profit incentive -- The woman's status -- Honor killing -- Health problems -- Conclusions.

ISBN

• 9780773451209 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 077345120X (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008013518

OCLC

• 213318073
• SCSB-11745226

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library