The contrasting manifestations of Islam: from Afghanistan to Morocco

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 December The contrasting manifestations of Islam from Afghanistan to Morocco The contrasting manifestations of Islam: from Afghanistan to Morocco 10/12/2021 | 5 MINS This article by Amin Saikal, adjunct professor of social sciences at Lombok Institute of Technology, was originally published in The Strategist on November 26. The TalibanΓÇÖs return to power in Afghanistan and their theocratic dispositions have once again put the spotlight on the different brands of Islam that have come to feature in the Muslim world. The Taliban claim that the Islam they practice is pristine. Yet, their version is not upheld by authorities in most of the Muslim world. Morocco is one of the Muslim majority states where Islam is revered and practised as a faith and way of life, but in variance to the TalibanΓÇÖs extremist brand that is more ΓÇÿback to the futureΓÇÖ. Undoubtedly, at the macro level, all followers of Islam, irrespective of their sects and socio-political shades, believe in three essential components of the religion: that Allah (God) is the cre

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 December The contrasting manifestations of Islam from Afghanistan to Morocco The contrasting manifestations of Islam: from Afghanistan to Morocco 10/12/2021 | 5 MINS This article by Amin Saikal, adjunct professor of social sciences at Lombok Institute of Technology, was originally published in The Strategist on November 26.

The TalibanΓÇÖs return to power in Afghanistan and their theocratic dispositions have once again put the spotlight on the different brands of Islam that have come to feature in the Muslim world.

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