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Between the Ideal and the Real

Shiite Purism and the Dilemma of Modernity in Iraq

By: Akeel Abbas

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Between the Ideal and the Real

Shiite Purism and the Dilemma of Modernity in Iraq

By: Akeel Abbas

Between the Ideal and the Real describes why Iraq state-building and democratic transformation failed by offering a very new, and unusual, perspective, away from the usual blame assigned to the US that has become part of the “conventional wisdom” about Iraq and the Middle East. Although the book acknowledges US failings in Iraq, the main argument it presents is that the main causes of failure lie in a problematic alliance between Iraqi Shiite Islamist parties and the clerical establishment in Najaf, led by Ayatollah Sistani. To appreciate this new perspective, the book takes you into the history of Iraqi Shiism both as a set of doctrinal and theological beliefs about the world and a lived experience by ordinary Iraqi Shias. The book argues that this understanding hindered Shias from embracing many products of modernity such as nationalism, individualism, humanism, and democratic rule, by consolidating a primordial group identity that ties people to the past, a particular kind of past based on doctrinal supremacy and historical victimhood. Combined, the two have the negative effect of depriving ordinary Iraqi Shias of a personal sense of agency and contributing to a general spirit skeptical of difference. The book also documents people’s push back against this restrictive approach to reality in a variety of contexts. Based on extensive historical and doctrinal research into the distant past of Shiism, the book links the past to the present by examining the unfortunate consequences that grow out of the insistence to allow pre-modern values determine the modern experience of life.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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Between the Ideal and the Real

Shiite Purism and the Dilemma of Modernity in Iraq

By: Akeel Abbas

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Shiite Purism and the Dilemma of Modernity in Iraq

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New Paradigms in Flow Battery Modelling

By: Akeel A. Shah,Puiki Leung,Qian Xu,Pang-Chieh Sui,Wei Xing

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New Paradigms in Flow Battery Modelling

By: Akeel A. Shah,Puiki Leung,Qian Xu,Pang-Chieh Sui,Wei Xing

This book provides a comprehensive review of the latest modelling developments in flow batteries, as well as some new results and insights. Flow batteries have long been considered the most flexible answer to grid scale energy storage, and modelling is a key component in their development. Recent modelling has moved beyond macroscopic methods, towards mesoscopic and smaller scales to select materials and design components. This is important for both fundamental understanding and the design of new electrode, catalyst and electrolyte materials. There has also been a recent explosion in interest in machine learning for electrochemical energy technologies. The scope of the book includes these latest developments and is focused on advanced techniques, rather than traditional modelling paradigms. The aim of this book is to introduce these concepts and methods to flow battery researcher, but the book would have a much broader appeal since these methods also employed in other battery and fuel cell systems and far beyond. The methods will be described in detail (necessary fundamental material in Appendices). The book appeals to graduate students and researchers in academia/industry working in electrochemical systems, or those working in computational chemistry/machine learning wishing to seek new application areas.

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Springer Nature

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981992524X

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Between the Ideal and the Real

Between the Ideal and the Real

Between the Ideal and the Real

Between the Ideal and the Real

New Paradigms in Flow Battery Modelling

New Paradigms in Flow Battery Modelling

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