JOY IN MODESTY: Devout Muslims such as Husic, right, and her friends are changing Sarajevo's faceZiyah Gafic / Getty Reportage The four women chatting at an outdoor restaurant in an old cobblestone ...
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — Islam is blossoming in Tajikistan. Beards are in style. Headscarves, too. Bazaars are doing a booming trade in prayer rugs, religious audio recordings and gaudy clocks featuring ...
Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006), 288 pp., $25.95. “Can you tell a Sunni from a Shi‘a?” Many people cannot describe the ...
Four decades is enough for an independent nation to determine its true identity. However, recent political manoeuvrings, gradually influenced by a small but strong group of Islamist hardliners and a ...
Despite a resurgence of Islam in the predominately Muslim country, Indonesia has remained politically secular. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports. Now: religion and politics in Indonesia. Earlier this week, ...
DAMASCUS/ALEPPO: The three Mohammads are all sure of one thing. "I want to be the imam of a mosque," says 10 year old Mohammad, on his way home from a lesson in Aleppo's Islamic school. "I want to be ...
Many Uzbeks are beginning to take more seriously their obligations under Islamic law, or sharia. Interest in religion is growing. But many Muslims who previously only had a nominal connection with the ...
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