Madrasa
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The Abbasid invention of Islam
Razib Khan argues that Sunni Islam as we know it was strongly shaped by Iranian-Indian religious and social thought maturing in Central Asia under the Abbasids, with the hadith culture…
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Jamia Hafsa (Lal Masjid) builds a new shrine
A comment, with a news extract, on Jamia Hafsa in Islamabad naming its library after Osama bin Laden; the poster remarks that one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter and…
