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7 Mar 2024, 6:21 am by Farkhondeh Akbari
Hazaras make up about 19 percent of Afghanistan’s population, and predominantly practice the Shiite form of Islam in what is otherwise a Sunni-majority country. [read post]
20 Mar 2023, 7:39 am by Crispin Smith
Instead they sought to build what they called the “Shiite project” – the Arab world’s first Shiite-controlled state, aimed at preventing the reemergence of a Sunni powerbase from Iraq. [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 7:50 am by JURIST Staff
He considered the right hand man to Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s  and was connected with every Iraqi militia by providing support for them and also calling the shots for many of them ever since the 2003 US led invasion of Iraq. [read post]
22 Feb 2022, 3:15 pm by Steve Gottlieb
In a seventh century palace revolt, those called Sunni followed descendants of a male cousin of Mohammad against those called Shia, who followed descendants of Mohammad’s daughter, Fatimah and her husband, Ali. [read post]
14 Feb 2022, 2:32 pm by JURIST Staff
Imam Abu Hanifa (The leader and conveyer of one of the four school of thoughts among the Sunni Muslims and the prominent Sunni sect in the India subcontinent, Afghanistan, central Asia, Middle East, and some Islamic territories in the world) and his methodology in deriving Jurisprudential issues. 3. [read post]
26 Sep 2021, 7:01 am by Matthew Levitt
Editor’s Note: The rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) had many sources, ranging from the Iraqi government’s increased discrimination against Sunnis to the collapse of Syria into civil war. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 10:10 pm by Mahmoud Khatib
Estate Planning for the Muslim Client, an ABA-published book by Yaser Ali and Ahmed Shaikh (this is a good reference for lawyers, too). [read post]
4 Jan 2021, 7:58 am by Michael Kugelman, Adam Weinstein
More recently, in May 2020, Ali Wazir’s brother Arif Wazir was gunned down in South Waziristan. [read post]
21 May 2020, 1:00 pm by Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Tariq Ahmad, a foreign law specialist in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. [read post]
4 Feb 2020, 5:00 am by Vanda Felbab-Brown
This includes the so-called shrine Shia militia groups pledging allegiance to Iraqi Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, as well Sunni and ethnic militia groups. [read post]
24 Oct 2019, 5:00 am by Daniel Gabriel, Jens Dakin, Ali Sada
Erdogan’s close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood have raised concerns over Turkey’s intentions to build a “Sunni belt” across northern Syria by repatriating Sunni Arab refugees onto Kurdish lands. [read post]
12 Aug 2019, 8:10 am by C. Christine Fair
" Astonishingly, Mountbatten was able to persuade the various political leaders of the future Pakistan and India—Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru in particular—to accept the boundary commission decisions before the awards were announced. [read post]
7 Apr 2019, 7:00 am by Sama’a Al-Hamdani
This ideology is inspired by Zaydism, a branch of Shi’ism with similar religious practices to the Sunni Shafi’i sect in Yemen. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 2:19 pm
"In a statement shortly after the hearing, Khadim Hussain Rizvi, head of the hard-line Sunni group Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan, said no blasphemer could escape punishment regardless of the verdict. [read post]
9 Oct 2018, 8:06 am by J. Dana Stuster
Abdul Mahdi, though, garnered endorsements from Kurdish and Sunni politicians and Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the highest Shia authority in Iraq, and Amiri and Maliki backed down when it became apparent that they did not have the votes to form their own coalition. [read post]
25 Sep 2018, 9:42 am by J. Dana Stuster
Ahvaz is situated in Khuzestan Province in southwest Iran; the area has a large Sunni population and was hit particularly hard by the country’s war with Iraq in the 1980s, which Saturday’s parade commemorated. [read post]
17 Jul 2018, 7:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
After meeting with Putin in Moscow last week, Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said that Iranian troops would leave Syria if Assad were to request it—but Assad is unlikely to do so. [read post]