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Iraq
Index
Like its predecessor, this study is an attempt to treat in a
concise and objective manner the dominant social, political,
economic, and military aspects of contemporary Iraqi society.
Sources of information included scholarly journals and
monographs, official reports of governments and international
organizations, newspapers, and numerous periodicals.
Unfortunately there was a dearth of information from official
Iraqi sources, as well as a lack of sociological data resulting
from field work by scholars in Iraq in the 1980s. Chapter
bibliographies appear at the end of the book; brief comments on
some of the more valuable sources suggested as possible further
reading appear at the end of each chapter. Measurements are given
in the metric system; a conversion table is provided to assist
those readers who are unfamiliar with metric measurements (see
table 1, Appendix). A glossary is also included.
The transliteration of Arabic words and phrases follows a
modified version of the system adopted by the United States Board
on Geographic Names and the Permanent Committee on Geographic
Names for British Official Use, known as the BGN/PCGN system. The
modification is a significant one, however, in that diacritical
markings and hyphens have been omitted. Moreover, some
geographical locations, such as the cities of Babylon, Kirkuk,
Mosul, and Nineveh, are so well known by these conventional names
that their formal names--Babil, Karkuk, Al Mawsil, and Ninawa,
respectively, are not used.
Data as of May 1988
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