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One of the world’s top Shi’ite clerical leaders, Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah, has died: “His career as an interpreter of Islamic jurisprudence and Shiite intellectual culture spanned more than half a century and touched on every aspect of public and private life for the millions of Shiite Muslims who considered him their ‘marja’, [...] The sixth and last chapter of Juan Cole’s Engaging the Muslim World examines the United States’s relationship with Iran. The first part of the chapter is a look at Iran’s current political system, noting the ways in which anti-Iranian sentiments and fears are whipped up through distortions of evidence and even bizarre fantasies, such [...] |
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