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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Based on extensive archival researc-h with newly available Iraqi state and Ba'th Party doctmzents, this article attempts to shed light on the Saddam. Husayn regime '3 relationship with lslamists and lslamism, arguing that it ir1strumenta.lizecl Islam in its foreign policy to an unprecedented extent, but not out of ideological conviction. This article, therefore, clari?es an important issue in the historiography of Saddam 's Iraq and suggests that religion can play a concrete role in international relations.
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