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Archives: political Islam
![Given Fundamentalist impact on Syria, Women’s Freedoms in Doubt](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/09/given-fundamentalist-impact-on-s-187x137.jpg)
![India joins 20 Muslim Countries in banning ‘Instant Divorce’](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/08/india-joins-20-muslim-countries-187x137.jpg)
India joins 20 Muslim Countries in banning ‘Instant Divorce’
TeleSur | - - Women’s rights activists view the ruling as a step toward granting Muslim women greater equality and justice. India’s Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional a Muslim practice that reportedly…![Human Rights Defenders Are Still Behind Bars in Turkey](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/07/human-rights-defenders-are-still-187x137.jpg)
Human Rights Defenders Are Still Behind Bars in Turkey
By Zara Rahman | ( GlobalVoices.org) | - - Eight of Turkey's most respected human rights defenders were arrested last week, along with two information technology trainers from Sweden and Germany. All…![Does Sunni Fragmentation after ISIL threaten Iraq’s Future?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/07/does-sunni-fragmentation-after-i-187x137.jpg)
Does Sunni Fragmentation after ISIL threaten Iraq’s Future?
By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - As the date for a Baghdad summit on unity nears, the cracks are showing. It seems the country's Sunni politicians can’t even…![Can the Liberation of Mosul begin to free the Mideast from Fundamentalism?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/07/can-the-liberation-of-mosul-begi-187x137.jpg)
Can the Liberation of Mosul begin to free the Mideast from Fundamentalism?
By Balsam Mustafa | (The Conversation) | - - After an offensive lasting nearly nine months, the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, walked through the streets of Mosul on July 9 after…![Iraq Deployed Shiite Volunteers to defeat ISIL, but now has a Militia Problem](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/iraq-deployed-shiite-volunteers-187x137.jpg)
Iraq Deployed Shiite Volunteers to defeat ISIL, but now has a Militia Problem
Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) |. - The Iraqi government’s next big problem is coming into view: The group of powerful Shiite Muslim militias loyal to Iran seem to want to…![The top 4 Challenges facing the Arab World](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/the-top-4-challenges-facing-the-187x137.jpg)
The top 4 Challenges facing the Arab World
By Tarek Osman | (Project Syndicate) | - - LONDON – Fifty years after the Six Days War, the Middle East remains a region in seemingly perpetual crisis. So it is no…![Saudi v. Qatar: Will Turkish intervention cause Escalation?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/saudi-v-qatar-will-turkish-inter-187x137.jpg)
Saudi v. Qatar: Will Turkish intervention cause Escalation?
By James M. Dorsey | (Inter Press Service) | - - SINGAPORE (IPS) - Turkey’s parliament is this week fast tracking the dispatch of up to 3,000 troops to Qatar, home to…![Could ISIL attacks in Tehran plunge the Middle East into greater turmoil?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/could-isil-attacks-in-tehran-plu-187x137.jpg)
Could ISIL attacks in Tehran plunge the Middle East into greater turmoil?
By Mohammadbagher Forough | (The Conversation) | - - Iran experienced its first major ISIL attack on June 7, as armed men and suicide bombers targeted two symbols of the Islamic Republic…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/05/file-20170523-5782-1o7pzq7-187x137.jpg)
What is the Sunni-Shiite Divide into Which Trump just Stepped?
Ken Chitwood | (The Conversation) | - - In his address in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, May 21, while calling on Muslim leaders to lead the fight against terrorism, President Donald Trump…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/05/61GepBYfFnL._SY344_BO1204203200_-1-187x137.jpeg)
Was/Is there an Islamic Enlightenment? (de Bellaigue)
William Eichler interviews Christopher de Bellaigue | Informed Comment | - - Eichler: 1. In the conclusion to The Islamic Enlightenment you describe modern jihadists as “miracle-grow Muslims” who have been “incubated…![Syria’s forgotten pluralism and why it matters today](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/syrias-forgotten-pluralism-and-w-187x137.jpg)
Syria’s forgotten pluralism and why it matters today
By Andrea Williams | (The Conversation) | - - The Syrian Civil War has been raging for six years. It has killed nearly half a million people and left over 12 million,…![Why We Need Political Islam](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/why-we-need-political-islam-187x137.jpg)
Why We Need Political Islam
By Shlomo Ben-Ami | (Project Syndicate) | - - MADRID – US President Donald Trump has put on the back burner an executive order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a…![Why Designating Muslim Brotherhood ‘Terrorists’ will harm Democracy at home and Abroad](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/why-designating-muslim-brotherho-187x137.jpg)
Why Designating Muslim Brotherhood ‘Terrorists’ will harm Democracy at home and Abroad
Human Rights Watch | - - (Washington, DC) – A US government designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, which the Trump administration is reportedly considering, would threaten the…![Why Trump & his Cabinet’s Jihad against “Political Islam” will Fail](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/why-trump-his-cabinets-jihad-aga-187x137.jpg)
Why Trump & his Cabinet’s Jihad against “Political Islam” will Fail
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Several members of Donald Trump's new team, including National Security Adviser Mike Flynn and proposed Secretary of Defense Mike Mattis have expressed themselves…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/shadowars-1-187x137.jpg)
Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East
By Christopher M. Davidson | (Informed Comment) | - - Swept along on a tidal wave of euphoria, by spring 2011 many had cautiously begun to believe that the wave of Arab…![The myth and history of Sunni-Shia divide](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/the-myth-and-history-of-sunni-sh-187x137.jpg)
The myth and history of Sunni-Shia divide
By Amir Ahmadi Arian | ( OpenDemocracy ) | - - Sunnis and Shias have lived together in peace for centuries, and up to the new millennium have barely had a history…![The Millenarian Dimensions of the Attempted Coup in Turkey and implications for Muslim Modernism & Traditionalism](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/the-millenarian-dimensions-of-th-187x137.jpg)
The Millenarian Dimensions of the Attempted Coup in Turkey and implications for Muslim Modernism & Traditionalism
By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | - - The failed July 15 coup in Turkey has generated a whole range of debates on who was really behind the coup, Turkey’s future…![Nearly 500 more US Troops sent to Iraq for Mosul Attack](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/nearly-500-more-us-troops-sent-t-187x137.jpg)
Nearly 500 more US Troops sent to Iraq for Mosul Attack in advance of Election Day
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Stars and Stripes is reporting that the number of US troops in Iraq has risen from 4,000 to 4,460 in preparation for the…![How Twitter robots spam critics of Saudi Arabia & Shiite Muslims](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921182046im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/07/how-twitter-robots-spam-critics-187x137.jpg)