If Paris was, according to Walter Benjamin's famous definition, the capital of the 19th century, then Baghdad was the capital of the 9th and 10th. Its history is to a large extent the history of classical Islam. The first feature of this city was its diversity: a plurality of religions and, as far as Islam is concerned, a plurality of ways of being Muslim. While this plurality came to an end with the decadence and ruin of the Abbasid caliphate, it can still serve as a symbolic resource for contemporary Iraq.
Diez, M., La pluralità identitaria dell'Islam iracheno: Baghdad città-laboratorio, in Redaelli, R., L'Iraq contemporaneo, Brioschi editore, MILANO -- ITA 2023: 147-164 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/229729]
La pluralità identitaria dell'Islam iracheno: Baghdad città-laboratorio
Diez, Martino
2023
Abstract
If Paris was, according to Walter Benjamin's famous definition, the capital of the 19th century, then Baghdad was the capital of the 9th and 10th. Its history is to a large extent the history of classical Islam. The first feature of this city was its diversity: a plurality of religions and, as far as Islam is concerned, a plurality of ways of being Muslim. While this plurality came to an end with the decadence and ruin of the Abbasid caliphate, it can still serve as a symbolic resource for contemporary Iraq.
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