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Abbasid dynasty, 39, 93
See also
Islam
Abdulillah (regent), 49, 52, 53
ibn Abdullah, Muhammad.
See
Muhammad
agriculture, 22, 28, 79–81
Akashat, 79
Al-Diddibah (plain), 27
Al-Kadhimain Mosque (Baghdad), 89
Al Qurnah, 22, 23
Al Thawrah Dam, 24
Alexander the Great, 35–36
Ali, 39, 97
See also
Shia Islam
bin Ali, Hussein, 44, 45
Ali al-Gharbi, 26
Allawi, Iyad, 119,
123
An Najaf, 39, 40, 97, 102
Arab-Israeli conflict, 50–51, 107
Arab Revolt, 44
Arab Union, 53
Arabian Gulf.
See
Persian Gulf
Arabic language, 87–88
Arch of Ctesiphon,
93
, 94
area, 21,
25
Arif,Abd al-Rahman, 57,
58
Arif,Abd al-Salam, 53–54,
55
, 56–57
See also
Free Officers
arts, 88–91
As Sulaymaniyah, 88
Assyrian Empire, 34, 95
See also
history
Assyrians, 75, 84
See also
Christianity
Atatürk Dam, 23–24
Baath Party, 54–55, 56–61, 75, 101, 104, 113,
117, 118
See also
political parties
Babylon, 33, 34–35
See also
history
Baghdad, 13, 19, 22, 30, 39, 40–41, 44, 46, 47,
53, 57, 58, 71, 78, 79, 93–94, 112, 114
Mongol sack of, 40, 94
al-Bakr,Ahmed Hassan, 57, 58–59, 60
Basra, 26, 27, 41, 43, 66, 78, 79, 93, 95–96, 112
Battle of Karbala, 39
See also
Islam
Bayji, 78
Blair,Tony, 119
Bremer, L. Paul,
100
, 114, 118
Bush, George H.W., 65–66, 69
Bush, GeorgeW., 18–19, 71, 99, 103,
108
, 111,
112, 114, 117, 121
Christianity, 36, 38, 46, 48, 75, 84, 95
See also
Islam
Clemenceau, Georges,
45
climate,
25
, 30–31
Clinton, Bill, 16, 69, 70
Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), 114,
117
Code of Hammurabi, 33
“cradle of civilization.”
See
Mesopotamian
civilization
currency, 80
Dahuk, 88
Dawrah, 78
economy, 51, 77–81
See also
oil
Egypt, 50, 51–52, 54, 113
Euphrates River, 19,
21
, 22–24, 34, 108
See also
Tigris River
Fahd (Crown Prince), 105
Faisal I (King), 45,
46
, 47, 48
Faisal II (King), 49, 52, 53
Fallujah, 113
family life, 86–87
foreign relations, 104–109
and Iran, 101–103
and Turkey, 101, 103–104
and the United States, 13, 76–77, 99–101
Numbers in
bold italic
refer to captions.