The impact of the religious authority in Iraq's political events (1914-1918) Study in light of the British documents

Abstract

    This research aims to the impact of the religious authority follow in the political events in Iraq during the First World War, and culminated in the position of the harbingers established a greater role in the years following the war, both those represented by the fact that a number of uprisings against occupying such as Najaf uprising British authority Najaf in 1918 or the fact that Iraq's major liberal revolution on the thirtieth of June 1920.  Within this context revealed British documents is published on the seriousness of the role that the contribution of the religious authority and its men who have issued calls for jihad, and declared fatwas, which called for the lifting of arms against the British occupiers, who had wanted to tie Iraq to India, and turn it into a British colony to take advantage of its wealth and harness his people to serve the effort British military during and after the war. These British documents include documents of the Ministry of British India (India Office Records) British and documents of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Foreign Office) which were copies of which exist in the National Library in Baghdad in the years of the eighties of the twentieth century before being National Library of sabotage and arson, which affected the scientific institutions Cultural and after the 1991 and 2003 events.