Iraq’s Shia majority endured Sunni ascendancy across a millennium of regimes

Evidence

A striking case is that of Iraq, where a Shi ite majority has remained subject to a Sunni ascendancy—to borrow a word from Anglo-Irish history—that can be traced back from the republic regime to the monarchy, the British Mandate, the Ottoman Empire, and beyond into the Middle Ages. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1434

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• XREF: connects to: Bahrain’s Sunni monarchy rules a Shia majority it systematically privileges against — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 249