A majority of the over 24 mosques spread over Palu were damaged in the tsunami. Two of them survived, though one of them is gradually sinking.
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Madrasas, or Islam-centered schools, have long spread knowledge and literacy throughout the Muslim world. However, can they prepare students for today’s tech-based economies?
A scholar talks to Muslims in Puerto Rico and comes back with an understanding of their rich history and their struggles.
A new report on missing Muslims under-emphasises women’s growing participation in civil society.
The destruction of the al-Nuri Mosque and its minaret is a sad blow to Iraqi culture – and a rallying cry too.
The Great Mosque of Mosul - with its iconic leaning minaret - appeared on one of Iraq’s banknotes. Its destruction by the Islamic State is an act of great symbolic importance.
Muslims from the Salafist tradition can often be seen as ‘radical.’ There is not much understanding of Salafism, its history and its diversity. Here’s what it means to be a Salafist.
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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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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
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Associate Research Fellow, Heritage Destruction Specialist, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Faith and Peaceful Relations at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
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Professor of International Politics, Deakin University
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Professor in Sociology, Loughborough University
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Director, Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, University of Tasmania
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Professor in the History of Art Islamic Art and Architecture, Yale University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, UMass Amherst
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Affiliated Faculty of Bioethics, Religion, and Society, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University
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Assistant Professor of Religion, California Lutheran University
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Academic Fellow in Cultural Heritage, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Richmond
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Associate Professor of Sociology, West Virginia University
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Adjunct Professor, Charles Sturt University
