Abstract
Based on Ali al-Wardi’s theoretical innovations, the article investigates the relatively new phenomena of the rentier state and society in Iraq as well as the ongoing political conflict between the different social groups and confessions as a battle about economic and financial resources related to the oil economy and to rent seeking. The discourse also highlights the issue of social justice accomplished by al-Wardi as a core socio-economic problem since the early period of Islam and influencing the political and confessional conflicts throughout the history of Iraq. Al-Wardi presented a great vision on plurality of society and how to build a multicultural, multi-ethnic nation in Iraq.
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Published in: International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies. Volume 8, Issue 2-3, September 2014
DOI: 10.1386/ijcis.8.2-3.153_1
Keywords
sociology,social economics of Iraq,social justice in Islam,Iraq rentier economy,Sectarian conflict,Nomad sociology,Nomad culture
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