Tensions between Sunnis and Shias have been flaring up, with several incidents of violence reported in recent months: Most recently a suicide bomber killed at...
The legitimacy of the bedrock principle underlying the Islamic Republic of Iran—the so-called velayat-e motlaqeh-ye faqih, or absolute political authority of an expert in Islamic...
Judaism, the very original Arch of the Covenant for the three Abrahamic monotheistic religions of Jewish, Christianity and Islam, is now ubiquitously practiced, observed or...
There remains much heated discussion with trepidation on the decline of the Zoroastrian population, which currently stands at up to 200,000 worldwide. The same topic...
[dropcap]N[/dropcap]obody likes, or bears to hear about anyone getting killed. No Iranian wants to hear, about another Iranian getting killed. We all knew, what was...
Most of world’s popular religions have relied on political powers to legitimise their claim, offer protection and support, so the ‘true faith’ can spread far and...
This government of Iran has been on a hunting expedition since 1979, with the express intention of essentially eradicating Bahais from Iran. I don't understand...
According to a Gallup poll, more than one-third of Americans considered themselves as being spiritual but not religious, and secularism, as measured by the number...
It is nearly 50 years since Abolhassn Banisadr began to develop his revolutionary interpretation of Islam, releasing it from the various discourses of power that...
In a symbolic and unprecedented move, Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani, a prominent Muslim cleric in Iran announced today that he has gifted to the Baha'is of...
The setting of Reza Alsan’s controversial history, Zealot: The Life and Times Of Jesus of Nazareth, parallels the situation in Israel/Palestine today. Then as now...
Unsaid explanations left many generations of the people in Iran in their long puzzlement of submission to Islam. Although, after the freedom of Iran from...
For thousands of years, people have been attracted to religion simply because of the worldly benefits it provides to its followers and more importantly because...
Ziba Mir-Hosseini is an anthropologist, and her book Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999) can be viewed...
