As in the rest of the Muslim world, Islam is integral to Iranian society.
There are indications some cardinals hope this pope will be Christian-friendly to Islam and the developing world.
The prime minister has identified one of Malaysia's most daunting challenges: how to practice Islam in a modern world.
The world of Islam is not monolithic though its domain is vast.
Their rage would have been of little consequence but for the upheavals inside the traditional world of Islam resulting from the relentless pressures of globalization.
In November, she was presented with the first ever YouTube Visionary Award for her bold use of the video-sharing network to discuss stereotypes about Islam and the Arab world.
But the world of Islam, in his view, has been held back by institutions like the waqf, a sort of Islamic charity which people sometimes use to create jobs for their families.
If we are to believe the reports published this weekend by three of America's leading newspapers (based on multiple if anonymous sources and semi-confirmed by top intelligence officials), the latest NIE concludes that the war in Iraq is fanning the flames of global terrorism and creating new enemies for the U.S. in the world of Islam.
In particular, it will require the mobilization of Muslim leaders throughout the world to promote a pluralistic and tolerant understanding of Islam, at peace with itself and the modern world.
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Welcome to the confused and confusing world of European Islam.
The Gaza crisis also triggered a round of name-calling within the world of British Islam that has laid bare a rapid diminution of the middle ground on which emollient types hope to stand.
As so often these days, he faces not punishment by his own government but the potentially lethal consequences of being denounced as a heretic by several influential groups in the quarrelsome world of Egyptian Islam.
For the next pope, relations with Islam, both in the developing world and the European heartland of the Christian faith, will be high on the list of concerns.
S. Hodgson, The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, 3 vols. (1974).
Although not widely considered an African faith, roughly one fifth of the world's adherents to Islam reside in sub-Saharan Africa.
Given the country's symbolic role in sparking the Arab Awakenings, the party could turn Tunis into an influential magnet for innovative faith-based thinking about how Islam should best interface with the modern world.
Political Islam prescribes a set of specific social, economic and legal practices in a way that is very different from the more general social teachings (such as calls to practice charity or strive for justice) found in the spiritual dimension of Islam, Christianity, Judaism and other world religions.
And all the rest of the Islamic world condemns the Taliban version of Islam as a distortion or a perversion of true Islam.
He does not begin his history in Arabia, or at the moment of the Arabs' eruption into world affairs with the birth of Islam.
Beginning with the Muslim Brotherhood of Hassan el-Banna in 1928, followed by the movements founded by Islamist ideologues like Abul ala Maududi, Sayyid Qutb and the extremist Deobandi creed in South Asia, radical Islam established a strong presence in the Muslim world in the second half of the 20th century.
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Islam is central to the identity of the Saudi state, whose influence in the Muslim world is based on its stewardship of Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities in Islam.
Before his conversion to fundamentalist Islam, Mustafa Saied spent a semester at Disney World.
Put simply, his job is to promote good relations between the Catholic Church and the world's other faiths, particularly Islam.
Christendom was the developing world of the day, spilling into Islam the economic migrants of the people's crusade and the children's crusade.
The fact is that, most Americans are subjected to much of the same misinformation with regard to Islam that I grew up with inside the Muslim world.
Islam was unique, I think, among the great world religions in the medieval period in making an explicit place for non-Muslims in society.
As we argue in our survey of Islam and the West in this issue, the Islamic world is no monolith: it is complex, diverse and argumentative.
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And there are now numerous examples in the Muslim (but not yet in the Arab) world where, without in any way disavowing Islam, women have actually headed governments: for instance in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Turkey.
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