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...Islam is central to the music, but just as you don’t need to be Christian to enjoy gospel music or the works of JS Bach, qawwali transcends religious boundaries....
...Mohammad Daud had not visited his relatives for around five years....
...As Bangladesh prepares for an election on Sunday, Minarul Islam, 37, is already resigned to the outcome....
...Technology could also help the clergy address public concerns and reconcile them more swiftly with Islam, while helping clerics make rulings in an increasingly complex society, he argued....
...Mehrdad Moazzemi, the Owj’s head of media and international affairs, said the choice of story did not indicate a change in the Guards’ focus on Islam....
...Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh accused Israel of committing a “major crime against worshippers”....
...Mohammad Javad Fazel Lankarani, a senior cleric in the holy city, said “it is time for us to be more present in public with this dress” and even if “we are slapped for Islam, we should not leave the scene...
...His son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi continued the modernising policy, although he lifted the ban....
...“With the tragic Amini’s death, the hijab law will be completely sidelined in practice,” said Mohammad-Sadegh Javadi-Hesar, a reformist politician....
...“If the revolution becomes weak, it’s when people give up on Islam — that’s impossible,” he adds....
...But they add that what is worrying for a system built on the ideals of revolution and Shia Islam is the frequency and diversity of the protests, even in the republic’s traditional conservative strongholds...
...“He’s a good Muslim and an ambassador of Islam.”...
...Ghani said he was warned he would meet the same fate as Mohammad Najibullah, a former president and communist who was murdered by the Taliban when they over-ran Kabul in 1996....
...Many are drawn to its perceived ideological purity, condemning the Taliban’s “corrupted version of Islam”....
...Unrest in the West Bank could worsen significantly, an aide to the Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh told the FT, after nearly 80 demonstrations on Friday....
...This is not just about the extreme example of showing an image that much of Islam interprets as being proscribed by the Koran, and that large numbers of Muslims find deeply offensive....
...For several months now, no visitors have been allowed at the shrine of Fatima Masoumeh, sister of Reza, one of the 12 Imams of Shia Islam....
...Still, Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, a former reformist vice-president, said there was a future for the reformist movement....
...That was cut short when Hamid and Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani, another co-founder of the group, were put on trial....
...Mohammad Aslam Khan always dreamt of returning to India to start a business and a family after a decade working at a Saudi Arabian supermarket....
...“There are even some religious people in other parts of the country who think this is the time to show their loyalty to Islam and to Qom by travelling there in its difficult days.”...
...Former reformist president, Mohammad Khatami, described his death as “a huge loss for Islam and Iran”....
...Prayer is one of the five pillars of Islam and often described as the main connection between observant Muslims and Allah....
...In September 2015, a Muslim labourer, Mohammad Akhlaq, was murdered by his neighbours in a village outside New Delhi on suspicion of eating beef....
...As education minister, Mr Najafi was seen on Iranian television with his first wife and daughter, their marriage seen as emblematic of how Islam, tradition and modernity could work together....
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