{"product_id":"order-out-of-chaos-david-siddhartha-patel-9781501715419","title":"Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrder out of Chaos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e explains why Iraqis turned to the mosque after state collapse.\u003c\/b\u003e In 2003, the US-led invasion of Iraq destroyed the Bathist state. Despite this the citizens of Basra established predictable routines of daily life and social order as the familiar and customary structures of state-imposed order collapsed. What enabled individuals in Basra to work together to produce order amid anarchy? The answer: the Friday mosque. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA week after the regime fell, Shii imams introduced Friday congregational prayers and associated sermons for the first time in most places since the 1950s. These sermons facilitated the spread of common knowledge and coordination, both locally and nationally, and contributed to the emergence of a relatively cohesive imagined community of Iraqi Shia that came to dominate Iraq's political order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining rational choice approaches, ethnographic understanding, and GIS analysis, David Siddhartha Patel reveals the interconnectedness of the enduring problem of how societies create social order in a stateless environment, the origins and limits of political authority and leadership, and the social and political salience of collective identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Siddhartha Patel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501715410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501715419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"David Siddhartha Patel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44071537475839,"sku":"9781501715419","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f627e545-0f56-4f6c-9575-c868666c3bc3.jpg?v=1685436691","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/order-out-of-chaos-david-siddhartha-patel-9781501715419","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}