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From Crown to Turban: How Iran’s Clergy Became a Political Power

Over several centuries, the Shiʿite clergy accumulated authority independent of political rulers until they became one of the ...
Opinion
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With Mojtaba’s anointment, Iran has restored the dynastic rule it once rejected

On March 8, the Islamic Republic of Iran completed the most exquisite act of self-cannibalization in the history of modern political theology. The Assembly of Experts – that eighty-eight-member ...
NJ.com

N.J. bar forcibly threw me out for wearing Muslim turban, man says in lawsuit

A Muslim man has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the owners of the Homestead Bar & Kitchen in Morristown accusing the establishment of forcibly removing him from the bar for wearing a turban in ...
Time

Critics Attack Wrong Target for Pentagon Change

Once again, according to the headlines, the Pentagon has bowed to Islamic demands: — “Caving to pressure from Muslim groups, the Pentagon has relaxed uniform rules to allow Islamic beards, turbans and ...
insider.si.edu

Turbans, Skirts and Spirit: Context Contingent Folk Models of a Muslim Brotherhood

Kurin, Richard. 1990. "Turbans, Skirts and Spirit: Context Contingent Folk Models of a Muslim Brotherhood." Social Analysis (Special Issue), 97–113.
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

U.S. faith leaders recall Sikh's bias killing after Sept. 11

MESA, Ariz. -- Sikh businessman Balbir Singh Sodhi was helping plant a flower bed at his Arizona gas station when he was shot dead by a man seeking to avenge 9/11. Mistaken for an Arab Muslim because ...