Iraqi Culture & Society

June 20 was International Refugee Day, a fitting moment for the world to focus on the plight of the 60 million and rising number of displaced people. As the British-Somali poet Warsan Shire put it, “No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth of a shark.” But there are also millions who are unable to escape, lacking the means or fearful of bigger “sharks” further afield. Meanw

Abstract In an effort to situate Ali al-Wardi’s larger body of scholarship, this article places him within his Iraqi and international intellectual milieu, highlighting the role of his book Preachers of the Sultan for its grounding of his later works, while at the same time asserting the seriousness with which he took the scholar’s role as an activist to bring knowledge to the

Download PDF Introduction Anthropologists believe that Man is the only creature capable of rational behaviour because he has a mind with which to think, a language with which to express himself and a hand with which to produce his daily needs. These elements make him a rational human being; different from other living creatures. In Western philosophy, the word ‘reason’ is de

International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies. Volume 8, Issue 2-3, September 2014 Contents Sociology in Iraq: The centennial celebration of Ali al-Wardi Authors: Tareq Y. Ismael And Jacqueline S. Ismael Page Start: 97 ‘Alī Al-Wardī, ‘Texas sociologist’? Authors: Elizabeth Bishop Page Start: 103 Iraq today in the thoughts of al-Wardi: The rule of the preachers Au

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