by Alex Thurston The media’s use of the term “ultraconservative” is also connected with some Salafis’ support for implementing...

by Austin Dacey Do you have a human right to blaspheme? Ask a philosopher and you may get two...

by Alex Thurston Suddenly, Salafism seems to be everywhere: mainstream Salafism, political Salafism, Wahhabist Salafism,

by Irina Papkova Last week marked twenty-two years since the signing of the Taif Accords put an end...

by Janaki Challa The largest Jewish community in India...are descendents of persecuted Jews from Galilee who were...

by Alex Thurston Teju Cole analyzes the destruction of the shrines by analogy: Mali is premodern Europe; Mali is...

by Austin Dacey The Indian Penal Code was drafted in 1837 by the Indian Law Commission...In their commentaries,...

by Alex Thurston Should Sudan’s protesters topple President Omar al Bashir, I believe the media would get excited, but...

by Alex Thurston AMOK turns the logic of the law’s critics around: the bill will not target Muslims but...

by Maurice Chammah The editors weren’t pleased. It was too complex...It would be easier, they decided, to frame the...

by Alex Thurston The MNLA and Ansar al Din have dominated the headlines about Mali this spring and...

by Austin Dacey Fifty-six years before Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses thrust blasphemy into the spotlight of Western...

by Irina Papkova For two weeks, Lebanon lived on the knife edge of a sectarian civil war. And here...