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Understanding Calls to a Caliphate

Understanding Calls to a Caliphate

Reza Pankhurst A piece in the Economist entitled “Dreaming of a Caliphate” investigates how some thinkers are struggling with the concept of Islamic rule in the “modern” age where it appears the only acceptable polity is that of [...]

Syria, Saudi, Hezbollah and Cairo: the Politics of Sectarianism

Syria, Saudi, Hezbollah and Cairo: the Politics of Sectarianism

Dr. Reza Pankhurst “…it is not Assad and his allies alone who are benefitting from framing the uprising as a sectarian one” However well intentioned, the gathering of a number of Islamic scholars and preachers at [...]