(THE CONVERSATION) Twelver Shiism is the largest branch within Shiism – one of the two major sects within Islam. Shiism is ...

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I am making available my two-part lecture plus a slideshow with lots of images to help explain the origin and foundations of Shi’i Islam. In the past few years, as the United States gets more and more ...

Shadi Hamid, author of Islamic Exceptionalism, argues many Muslims support a religious-dominated government, but that doesn't equal violence. Steve Inskeep talks to Hamid about Islam and democracy.