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Defining Minorities: Mission Impossible? The Case of Hashemite Iraq

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2018

Aline Schlaepfer
Aline Schlaepfer*
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Department of Arabic Studies, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; e-mail: [email protected]
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 4 , November 2018 , pp. 769 - 772
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8 London, 20–22 December 1927 (BNA, CO 730/125/9). The results of his inquiry in Baghdad were published in a book titled The Constitutional Law of ‘Iraq (Baghdad: Mackenzie and Mackenzie, 1928).

9 Appendix to the letter by Nigel G. Davidson, Baghdad, to J.H. Thomas, Secretary of State for the Colonies, London, 24 July 1924 (BNA, T 161/158).

10 I discuss these aspects in more detail in “Entre communauté et minorité juive: Les défis de la transition en Irak au moment de l'indépendance,” in Minorités en Méditerranée aux XIXe et XXe siècles, ed. Valérie Assan, Bernard Heyberger, and Jakob Vogel (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, forthcoming).

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14 Helen Müller-Sommerfeld, “The League of Nations, A-Mandates and Minority Rights,” in Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere, 258–83.

15 Secret Report, Appendix A “The Jews of Iraq,” 9 July 1934 (BNA, AIR 23/806), in Records of Iraq, 1914–1966, ed. Alan de L. Rush (Slough: Archives Ed., 2001), 7:630.

16 Qanun al-Ta ʾ ifa al-Isra ʾ iliyya Raqm 77 (Bagdad: s.n., 1932).

17 R. Brooke-Popham, Baghdad, to Colonial Secretary, London, 26 September 1930 (BNA, CO 730 152 2). For more detailed analysis of the relationship between the Jewish community and Britain in Iraq, see Bashkin, Orit, New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012)Google Scholar; and Schlaepfer, Aline, Les intellectuels juifs de Bagdad: Discours et allégeances (1908–1951) (Leiden: Brill, 2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

18 J. Rich, London, to P. Azcaratè, Geneva, 9 December 1931 (LN, S345/2).

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