Muqtada al-Sadr and the fall of Iraq
by
 
Cockburn, Patrick, 1950-

Title
: 
Muqtada al-Sadr and the fall of Iraq

Author
: 
Cockburn, Patrick, 1950-

ISBN
: 
9780571239740
 
9780571239757

Personal Author
: 
Cockburn, Patrick, 1950-

Publication Information
: 
London : Faber and Faber, 2008.

Physical Description
: 
289 p. : maps ; 23 cm.

General Note
: 
Formerly CIP.
 
Includes index.

Contents
: 
1. The road to Kufa -- 2. The Shia of Iraq -- 3. Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr : the first martyr -- 4. The Iran-Iraq War -- 5. The Shia rise up -- 6. Saddam strikes back -- 7. Sadr II : the white lion -- 8. Sadr II : the assassination -- 9. Muqtada survives -- 10. Murder in the shrine -- 11. Muqtada seizes his moment -- 12. The siege of Najaf -- 13. The fall of Najaf -- 14. Muqtada turns to politics -- 15. The battle of Baghdad -- 16. Muqtada and the surge -- 17. Muqtada.

Abstract
: 
"War correspondent Patrick Cockburn charts the rise of Muqtada. He examines the Shia uprisings; Muqtada's family background (in particular the martyrdom of his father, Muhammad Sadiq, and his father-in-law, Muhammad Baqir, by Saddam Hussein); his leadership of the 70,000-strong Mehdi army; his links to the Iranians; his ambivalent relations with the Iraqi government; and the botched attempt to kill him by the U.S."--BOOK JACKET.

Personal Subject
: 
Ṣadr, Muqtadá.

Subject Term
: 
Shiites -- Iraq.
 
Iraq War, 2003-
 
Islam and politics -- Iraq.

Geographic Term
: 
Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003-


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