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New Roads of Islamic Thought
Massimo Campanini 6 September 2018

Casablanca, Morocco, hosted in July an important international conference on Sources of Pluralism in Islamic Thought. This is a topical subject, but above all one worthy of being debated with the wider public, whose perception is that Islam has been a never-changing monolith with no internal differentiations since the days of Muhammad.
Religion
Christians in Syria: escape, decimation and fear of Assad’s return
Riccardo Cristiano 23 July 2018

It is March 7th 2013. In a few short months Father Paolo Dall’Oglio will be taken prisoner by ISIS in Raqqa, right at the beginning of his mission to save others who had been kidnapped in Syria since 2011.
Society
India: A new vulnerability
Mujibur Rehman 26 June 2018

Post-2014, cow vigilante groups have emerged as the most prominent non-state actors in India in terms of their capacity to unleash violence. They strike at will even in regions not governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Religion
India: questions of representation
Mujibur Rehman 29 May 2018

The Karnataka election results once again perpetuate a disturbing trend regarding the decline of Muslim representation in various Assemblies where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has emerged a dominant force. The number of MLAs is just seven in a State where Muslims make up 12.91% of the population. The decline from 2013 is mainly owing to the BJP’s continued strategy of not fielding Muslim candidates, although it has emerged as the single largest party with 104 members.
International Affairs
Optimism Reigns Over Arab Renaissance Amman Conference
Mohammed Hashas 3 May 2018

A report by Mohammed Hashas on the conference “Arab Renaissance: Renewing the Civilizational Message” organized in Amman, Jordan, on 25-26 April 2018, in the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Arab Renaissance Foundation for Democracy and Development (ARDD).
Religion
Non-believers: atheism in the crosshairs of Egyptian legislators
Federica Zoja 2 May 2018

The Arab spring uprising opened the way to public debates inconceivable in North African countries before 2011. Yet, the reaction of the Cairo authorities has been very hostile to “free thinkers”, including citizens who eschew religion.
Religion
Why Muslims still feel second-class citizens in today’s India?
Mujibur Rehman 25 January 2018

Known for his work on identity politics and political economy, Dr. Rehman most recently published ‘Communalism in postcolonial India′, which addresses the rise of religious fundamentalism in India. In Bonn to lecture on cow vigilantism, he spoke to Roma Rajpal Weiss about the situation of the sub-continent’s Muslim minority.
Religion, Society
Populism and The Shared Sense of Abandonment
Lisa Anderson 22 January 2018

More and more citizens feel abandoned or betrayed by their State, by the Welfare State, says Lisa Anderson.
Religion
Indonesia: Nusantara Islam and social justice
Paolo Affatato 5 December 2017

The future of Indonesian Islam, and with it that of the entire nation, involves the issue of addressing social justice. The 82-year-old Muslim leader Ahmad Syafii Maarif, is convinced of this.
Religion
Religious pluralism and the failure of political Islam
Paolo Affatato 5 December 2017

Are Indonesian democracy and pluralism being endangered by the revitalization of radicalism and the increasingly invasive presence of extremist Islamic groups?