Compulsion in Religion —— Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq

----- 宗教中的强迫：萨达姆·侯赛因，伊斯兰教和伊拉克叛乱的根源

ISBN: 9780190843311 出版年：2018 页码：305 Helfont, Samuel Oxford University Press

Compulsion in Religion investigates religion and politics in Saddam Hussein's Iraq as well as the roots of the religious insurgencies that erupted in Iraq following the American-led invasion in 2003. In looking at Saddam Hussein's policies in the 1990s, many have interpreted his support for state religion as evidence of a dramatic shift away from Arab nationalism toward political Islam. While Islam did play a greater role in the regime's symbols and Saddam's statements in the 1990s than it had in earlier decades, the archival records and the regime's internal documents challenge this theory.