Islamic History

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  1/12/2023
  

  Hamline Controversy Shows How Religion and Neoliberal Administration Converge to Reject Expertise

  by Alexander Jabbari

  An instructive contrast can be drawn from a 1997 controversy over a frieze depicting Muhammad on the wall of the United States Supreme Court. Since then, post-9/11 Islamophobia, a culture of deliberate trolling under the banner of free speech, and the rise of corporate-style university management have drained the capacity for nuance.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/4/2022
  

  Why the Iranian Revolution Turned So Repressive

  by Shadi Hamid

  The Iranian revolution consolidated its power, and committed itself to a path of repression, through a fusion of clerical and state power that was unprecedented in the Islamic world. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/26/2022
  

  After Four Decades, Iranian Women's Frustrations are Erupting

  by Kelly J. Shannon

  Since the 1990s, Iranian women have been engaged in slowly escalating protest against the restrictions imposed by the Islamic Republic. Have those protests become too large and too public to be contained? 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  7/26/2021
  

  What Erotica Reveals about Society: A Conversation with Pernilla Myrne

  "Of course this society was male-dominated; it was a patriarchal society, like all other historical societies. But it was possible to talk explicitly about sex, sexual pleasure, sexual desire, for both men and women."