David Siddhartha Patel, "Order out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq "
English | ISBN: 1501767941 | 2022 | 240 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Order out of Chaos explains why Iraqis turned to the mosque after state collapse. 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.