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Data shows that more than half of Iranian women oppose the compulsory wearing of hijabs and that the vast majority oppose an Islamic Republic.
Feminist campaigners are using the internet to challenge the conservative establishment and empower Arab women.
A variety of cultural performances evoking intense emotions occur during the Islamic month of Muharram. A scholar observed the processions on Ashoura in northern Tanzania.
Narcissism among young people is often associated with selfies and showing off on social media, but it can also take the form of religious expression or fanaticism.
Writers seem to be especially vulnerable in polarized times, when the nuances of works are more likely to be overlooked.
Study shows that so-called “socio-cultural attitudes” are not a plausible explanation for the Muslim penalty.
The attack on Salman Rushdie promptly led to speculation on whether the attacker had been influenced by the 1989 fatwa against the author. A scholar explains what a fatwa is, and isn’t.
The fatwa against Salman Rushdie has political significance beyond the threat to free speech.
Rituals of rest and contemplation are woven into many religious traditions around the world.
Talk of the attack risks devolving into overly simplistic free speech debates.
Salman Rushdie, great writer and outspoken defender of writers’ freedom of expression, has been under a fatwa for more than 30 years. He’s set to recover from a shock stabbing last Friday in New York.
Under Indonesian rules designed to protect religious freedom, female Muslim students are not compelled to wear “Muslim attire”. But those regulations are often interpreted differently by schools.
Having the Quran in Igbo language will help in propagating Islam in the south eastern part of Nigeria.
Islamic views on abortion are based on diverse interpretations of what’s right and wrong when it comes to the body.
The start of the hajj is reigniting debates around its commercialization, but pilgrimages are also a time for seeking business opportunities, writes a scholar of Islam.
Scholars explain why many see abortion access as a religious freedom issue and what the views of different faiths are on ‘ensoulment,’ the point at which the soul is believed to enter the fetus.
Archival documents show that in the 1980s, British education officials refused to engage with Muslim communities about funding faith-based schooling.
The cinematic epic hinges on a very specific, and contentious, interpretation of early Islamic history.
Views on abortion differ not only among major religious traditions, but within each one.
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Senior Research Fellow, Muslim Philanthropy Initiative at IUPUI and Journalist-fellow, Religion and Civic Culture Center, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Director of The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation and Executive Member of Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies, Western Sydney University
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Research fellow, Middle East studies, Deakin University
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Affiliated Faculty of Bioethics, Religion, and Society, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University
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Professor of Political Science, Director of Center for Islamic & Arabic Studies, San Diego State University
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Florida International University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in History and International Relations, Curtin University
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Professor of Islamic Art, University of Michigan
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Senior Lecturer: Politics, History and International Relations, Aston University
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, School of Criminology, University of Leicester
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Class of 1950 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor and Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
