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Dawn of the Islamic Renaissance

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Dawn of the Islamic Renaissance

Recent political events that have swept across the Islamic world have fundamental implications for the most basic principles of political Islam. Some speak of a new wave of Islamic modernism in the Arab world. Meanwhile another Islamic context, Iran, is the setting for nothing less than an ideological renaissance for Islam itself.   Islamic political…

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The euro and an ancient divide

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The euro and an ancient divide

The coming months could actually leave an indelible mark not only on the very economic subsistence of many western states but also at a deeper level on an ancient philosophical debate between republicanism and liberalism. As the euro celebrated its tenth anniversary on January the first, the world appears to be entering into a new…

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