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Rumi Returning: An Islamic Way of Peace

Please join us for a screening of a documentary about key events in the life of Rumi, the Sufi mystic and poet. Rumi Returning beautifully illustrates the life of the best selling poet in the United States. This film richly communicates Rumi’s messages of love..

Researching and Writing about Human Rights in Iran

Abdulaziz Sachedina, Ph.D., is a Frances Myers Ball Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Dr. Sachedina, who has studied in India, Iraq, Iran, and Canada..

Political Islam and Democracy - What do Islamists and Islamic Movements want?

The term "Islamist" today is mostly popularly connected in the Western mind with theocracy, disregard for human rights, and hostility towards the West. It is used indiscriminately to describe various religiously-inspired political movements in a broad swath of the Muslim world which is internally culturally, socially, ethnically and, to an extent, religiously diverse. The broad application of this term in this manner thus collapses a range of views among groups loosely labeled as Islam..

THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM: A RELIGIOUS WAR?

The United States has been actively engaged in prosecuting the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) since September 2001. However, after 5 years of national effort that has included the loss of over 3,000 service members in combat operations, many question whether the U.S. strategy is working, and whether the United States understands how to combat an enemy motivated by a radical revolutionary religious ideology...