The Battle for the Soul of Islam
James M Dorsey
21 May 2025 14.00 BST
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Islam in the Modern World
Trevor Mostyn is a Lecturer in Middle East History at the University of Oxford teaching a course on “Islam in the Modern World” Writing a book on the United Arab Emirates (UAE), I introduced myself to the town councillors of Fujairah in my best classical Arabic. Delighted, they promptly closed down their offices and produced…
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Politics and Religion: Sectarianism in the Middle East
Professor Simon Mabon is Director of the Sectarianism, Proxies and De-sectarianisation (SEPAD) project at Lancaster University’s Richardson Institute and Chair in International Politics On 12 January, US and UK militaries struck targets across Yemen in an effort to prevent Houthi attacks against ships passing through the Red Sea. The Houthis, a violently intolerant Islamist group…
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The Persistent Challenge of ‘Islamic Exceptionalism’
Hadi Enayat is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations at the Aga Khan University in London. He is a political sociologist specialising in the Middle East with a particular focus on religion, law, political theology and intellectual history. The notion of national or civilisational ‘exceptionalism’ was first used in…
