La pluralità identitaria dell'Islam iracheno: Baghdad città-laboratorio

If Paris was, according to Walter Benjamin's famous definition, the capital of the 19th century, then Baghdad was the capital of the 9th and 10th. Its history is to a large extent the history of classical Islam. The first feature of this city was its diversity: a plurality of religions and, as far as Islam is concerned, a plurality of ways of being Muslim. While this plurality came to an end with the decadence and ruin of the Abbasid caliphate, it can still serve as a symbolic resource for contemporary Iraq.