Tribe – Religion – Sect An Iraqi Anthropological Excavation- Sadiq Altai

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What unites the topics of the book is that it revolves around three Iraqi axes (religion, sect, and tribe) topics that played and still play a central role in the Iraqi event, and they were dealt with by analysis and explanation according to the approaches of the anthropological and sociological frameworks. In addition to adopting the historical method in dealing with historical information and sifting it according to the comparative historical method in order to be able to reach data that can be relied upon to be of an acceptable degree of credibility and can be relied upon in research.
All the topics touched in this book are Iraqi topics and despite the difficulty of separating events, phenomena and concepts in the era of open and intertwined communications in which we live. Notwithstanding, I sought to isolate the Iraqi issue from the external influences surrounding it for research purposes, and I tried to focus on the Iraqi side of the problem, and this does not deny the existence of some exceptions in dealing with some phenomenons whose roots or extension outside Iraq must be addressed, as I have tried to be in the narrowest scope.