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A Governing Shari’a
Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari’a by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im Harvard University Press, 336 pages, $35 Is Islam compatible with the idea of separation of...
Render Unto Atatürk
When thousands of furious Muslims rallied in the streets of the West Bank, Pakistan, and Indonesia to protest Benedict XVI’s Regensburg address, many commentators spoke with pessimistic alarm about...
The Hrant Dink Murder and Its Meaning
On January 19, 2007, a journalist named Hrant Dink was shot dead by a seventeen-year-old militant on one of Istanbul’s busiest avenues. In just thirty-two hours, the Turkish police...
