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When the Iraqi government announced the end of ISIS control over its territory on December 9, 2017, there were a few celebrations in Baghdad. December 10 was proclaimed a public holiday, and a…

Several days ago, before the Saudi government’s execution of prominent Shia religious leader Nimr al-Nimr took tensions between Riyadh and Teheran to a new high, a reader emailed me a deceptively…

Nothing is as conducive to global radical mobilization as an exclusive theological summons.

Just when you thought Syria couldn’t get more confusing…

It is patronizing to reduce religion to “ethics” or “values.”

RD bloggers have rightly asked the question of the depth of the “piety” of the Tsarnaevs. That too misses a vital point. I do not for a moment discount the sincerity of the feelings for Islam by the Tsarnaev brothers. But, what Islam was the object of those feelings? I would offer that it was for an “Internet Islam”—for an abstract, compact, easily rendered Islam, fed by the representations flowing from out of the ether!

A scholar returning from a visit with Syrian opposition figures discusses the role of religion in the Syrian civil war, including whether it’s a sectarian war, what Americans need to know, and whether a post-war Syria will be an Islamic state.

Sunni leaders, despite having a supermajority within Islam still fear conversions to Shi’ism.

The current mess in Iraq provides Obama with an opportunity to demonstrate his knowledge about the conflict and difference between Sunni and Shi’ite…