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Grand Imam Of Al Azhar University Ahmed Al Tayeb Urges Reform In Islamic Religious Teachings

The head of Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious seat of learning, has called for education reform in Muslim countries in an effort to contain the spread of religious extremism. Speaking at counter-terrorism forum in the Saudi holy city of Mecca,…
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French Muslim Philospher Abdennour Bidar: Muslims Must Acknowledge That The Roots Of Terrorism Lies Within Muslim Society

In an essay published October 3, 2014 in the French newspaper Marianne, French Muslim philosopher Abdennour Bidar, author of  Self Islam: A Personal History of Islam (Seuil, 2006); Islam without Submission: Muslim Existentialism (Albin Michel, 2008), and A History of Humanism in the West (Armand Colin, 2014),…
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