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Religious Authority and the Politics of Islamic Endowments in Iraq (Carnegie Endowment, 2019)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, read 2026-08-16

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A 2019 Carnegie Endowment research paper on Iraq's Sunni and Shiite Endowment Diwans, created by the Iraqi Governing Council in 2003 after the fall of the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs, each a state-funded confessional office administering mosques, religious schools and endowed property for its own sect rather than a single unified state religious authority.

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Author
Harith Hasan
Publisher
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
URL
https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2019/06/religious-authority-and-the-politics-of-islamic-endowments-in-iraq
Source Type
Report
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2
Tier 2: a named scholar's policy research paper published by an established international affairs institute, used for its documented account of the 2003 creation and funding structure of Iraq's endowment offices.
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