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In this essay I explore the nationalization and secularization of the Iraqi educational system during the period between the two world wars, while demonstrating how various intellectuals championed pluralist educational models.
This article investigates Iraqi schooling during the 1990s under Ba’thist rule and after the regime’s fall in 2003 and compares the treatment of Islam in the curriculum. I focus on the degree to...
In this lesson, we will focus on the story of Islam after the death of Muhammad and the emergence of two main denominations. We will explore the key similarities and differences between the denominations, the emergence of different types of leaders (caliph/Imams). and the key beliefs of Sunni (six articles) and Shi'a (five roots).
15 paź 2015 · This report discusses “the Azerbaijan model” of coexistence and religious pluralism, as well as the challenges faced by the country in terms of building a national identity that is both secular and respective of religious diversity at once.
With the creation of a new Shiʻi-Kurdish power-sharing system following the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime, the leaders of these two marginalized communities began reassessing the former national ethos shaped by the Sunni-Arab minority.
21 maj 2009 · Vali Nasr brings erudition, an ancient Shia lineage, and a long global view of religion and politics. He suggests helpful analogies between current conflicts among different Muslims and conflicts that have marked periods of Western Christian history.
Over the past century, waves of Sunni reformers from the Middle East to South Asia to central Asia have called for a return to Islam's foundations by invoking well-established concepts in Islamic thought such as tajdid (renewal) and islah (reform).
