Proto-political conceptions of ‘Iraq’ in late Ottoman times
Visser, ReidarInternational Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, Volume 3, Number 2
Intellect Ltd. (2009)s. 143-154.
This article criticizes the so-called ‘artificiality paradigm’ concerning the emergence of the modern state on Iraq, according to which the kingdom of Iraq that came into being in 1921 was nothing but a random collection of Ottoman provinces that had little in common. On the basis of documents from the late Ottoman period, the article shows that the opposite appears to be the case.
