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A controversial Ramadan TV series banned in both Iran and Iraq explores the possible origins of the schism between Sunni and Shi’a Muslims. We hear from Dr Sayed Ammar Nakshawani- Prophet Muhammad ...

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The Islamic Renaissance Front’s Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa says the publications only touch on Islamic history and the root causes ...

Engineer founded Minorities Democratic Party to provide a political platform to followers of moderate Islam and Sufism, but ...

A 19th-century Sunni sheik, Ibrahim al-Maghribi, decreed that Muslims might freely take Alawite property and lives, and a ...

Turkish-American Ahmet T Kuru says the ban proves his argument that the ulama-state alliance suppresses intellectual freedom ...

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The human rights of religious minorities and others who do not conform to the interpretation of Islam prescribed by the ...

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