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SIMI operatives led to court in Bhopal, India, May 13, 2014 (Praveen Bajpai/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

India’s Invisible Jihad

Praveen Swami

Editor, Strategic Affairs, The Indian Express

Praveen Swami

Nov 3, 2017

Commentary

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MSP leader Abderrazak Mokri calls for a boycott of the presidential election, January 31, 2014 (Bachir Zemouri/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Political Islam in Post-Conflict Algeria

Vish Sakthivel

Robert A. Fox Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute

Vish Sakthivel

Nov 2, 2017

Commentary

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Members of the Iraqi Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) paramilitary forces southwest of Mosul, April 28, 2017 (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)

The Origins and Ascendancy of Iraq’s Shiite Militias

Ranj Alaaldin

Visiting Fellow, Brookings Doha Center, Director of the Proxy Wars Initiative, Carnegie Corporation

Ranj Alaaldin

Nov 1, 2017

Commentary

6 Min Read

Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, Volume 21

Hillel Fradkin

Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World

Husain Haqqani

Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia

Eric B. Brown

Senior Fellow

Hillel Fradkin, Husain Haqqani & Eric B. Brown

Mar 31, 2017

Commentary

1 Min Read

Map Of The Umayyad Caliphate Empire In 750 And The Islamic Empire In 1215. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

In Search of the Vanished Caliphate

Alexander Orwin

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Constitutional Government, Harvard University

Alexander Orwin

Mar 1, 2017

Commentary

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Screenshot from a propaganda video uploaded on June 11 by the Islamic State allegedly shows militants driving at an undisclosed location in Iraq's Nineveh province.

How al-Qaeda Survived the Islamic State Challenge

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Nathaniel Barr

Research Manager, Valens Global

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Nathaniel Barr

Mar 1, 2017

Commentary

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A mourner reads the Quran on August 17, 2011 in Gaza City, Gaza. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Making the Islamic Case for Religious Liberty

Abdullah Saeed

Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia

Abdullah Saeed

Mar 1, 2017

Commentary

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Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, appears in a video in which he warns Cameroon it faces the same fate as Nigeria. (Boko Haram video screenshot)

Justifying War: The Salafi-Jihadi Appropriation of Sufi Jihad in the Sahel-Sahara

Abdulbasit Kassim

Graduate Student, Islamic Studies & African Religions, Rice University

Jacob Zenn

Research Analyst, The Jamestown Foundation, and Research Fellow, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

Abdulbasit Kassim & Jacob Zenn

Mar 1, 2017

Commentary

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Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri shouts, 'We are ready to sacrifice our life for the prestige of the Prophet Mohammad' Islamabad on January 5, 2011 a day after the assassination of the governor of Punjab province Salman Taseer. (AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)

Pakistan's Descent into Religious Intolerance