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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

dissent in Islam

Identity Politics, Divisions within Islam and the Need for Incorporating the Concept of Political Dissent in Islamic Political Culture

By Seyed Mohammad Ali Taghavi  //  May 22, 2017

There is an ongoing debate among modern Muslim scholars as to whether politics and religion are intrinsically tied together in Islam, or that such a link has merely been a coincidence, imposed upon the religion…

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