Iraq’s Sunni religious leaders get less attention from political observers than their Shia counterparts, but they have also played a role in the country’s difficult path over the last twenty years, through totalitarianism, civic strife, and the ISIS reign of terror. The Sunni religious leadership’s political fragmentation has reflected—and in some cases even helped shape—the Sunni community’s internal conflicts and disputes as it tried to come to terms with its place in post-Saddam Iraq.
