The Conflict between Political Islam and Communism in Iraq 1954-1963

Abstract

Political work in one of its axes during the fifties of the last century in Iraq was centered around (the conflict). It was not in the concept of a conflict based on construction and growth like the nature of advanced parties, but rather it was a conflict of confrontation and elimination of the other, in which all ends that justify the means were used, but political Islam (meaning here Shiite) in some of its activity took upon itself the legitimate side in combating communism in Iraq, especially since communist thought began to take hold in the souls of Iraqi society after World War II, and its principles were sung by Iraqis keen to apply them, but they were ideas with a noble purpose among the poor, and thus this explicit belief, not implicit, was capable of leaping and penetrating in a dangerous way with the affiliation of some clerics to this thought in addition to other imported political trends represented by (the national trend), but in general, Iraqi communism became widely spread among Shiite Iraqis. It is worth mentioning that some factors encouraged the emergence of the political intellectual conflict between the clergy and the communists, including the methods and means of political Islam, as they were indirect through intellectual methods based on evidence. The reason for starting the study in 1954 is due to the Ministry of Nuri al-Said, called the Year of Decrees against Political Parties, and the end of the research in 1963 due to the coup of February 8 and the emergence of another political phase. The research section consists of this introduction, two requirements, a conclusion, research margins, a list of sources, and an English summary. The first requirement addressed the conflict and the factors of its emergence between political Islam and communism (1954-1958), and it includes the conflict (linguistically and technically), the factors of the conflict between political Islam and communism, and the political intellectual conflict between political Islam and communism (1954-1958). The second requirement is the political intellectual conflict after 1958, and it includes the development of the intellectual conflict between the two parties as well as the new variables. The conclusion contains the most prominent conclusions.