In August, Penang Institute hosted a private dialogue on “A Religion Divided: Between Myth and Reality” to encourage greater understanding of the divisions in the Muslim world. Just before the forum, Penang Monthly caught up with Prof Mohsen Kadivar, an Iranian Muslim scholar and a visiting professor of Islamic studies at Duke University, to get his views on the conflict between Shiites and Sunnis. As a political dissident, Kadivar has been a vocal critic of the doctrine of clerical rule...
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