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The New Iraq: The Sistani Factor
- Journal of Democracy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 16, Number 3, July 2005
- pp. 50-53
- 10.1353/jod.2005.0038
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Abstract:
For the Shi’ite majority and its senior religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani, the January elections played out against the background of a longing for justice that has deep spiritual and historical sources as well as more recent sociopolitical roots.