Word: islam
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...hope that my research on the impact of the Hajj pilgrimage on the pilgrim will inform the wider academic debate on the nature and interaction of religious and non-religious beliefs in Islam,” he said in the press release...
...Harvard Kennedy School professors will receive grants of up to $100,000 after being named 2009 Carnegie Scholars yesterday by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for their research on Islam and dedication to public outreach and understanding...
...will look at how it may be less about Islamist appeal in these countries, but more about their ability to mobilize a narrow constituency to go over the threshold to win in an area,” said Masoud. “Some scholars have thought that Islam influences people to vote [in favor of Islamist parties], but I think the more proximate cause is micro level variables on the ground in these elections...
...Muslim student at MIT, who also asked to remain anonymous to preserve his relationship with the Islamic community, said the chaplain’s remarks wrongly suggested that only Westerners and Westernized Muslims who did not fully understand Islam would find the killing of apostates objectionable...
...Abdul-Basser wrote in a later e-mailed statement that he “never expressed the position that individuals who leave Islam or convert from Islam to another religion must be killed. I do not hold this opinion personally.” He explained that he was not advocating for the positions mentioned in his e-mail, but rather “addressing them in the context of the evolution of an Islamic legal doctrine...