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Iran

Iran and the headscarf protests

Suzanne Maloney and Eliora Katz

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shout slogans at a rally against an Egyptian court's decision to sentence Mursi and other leaders to death, as they march under street decoration to mark the holy month of Ramadan in Al Haram street near Giza square, south of Cairo, Egypt June 19, 2015. Mursi will appeal against a conviction for violence, kidnapping and torture imposed by a court over the killing of protesters, his lawyers were quoted as saying by state media on Thursday. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - GF10000133229

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What Iran’s 1979 revolution meant for the Muslim Brotherhood

Shadi Hamid and Sharan Grewal

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Lebanon

Hezbollah: Revolutionary Iran’s most successful export

Jeffrey Feltman

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Indonesian Muslims attend Friday prayers at the Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta July 23, 2010. Indonesia's Muslims learned last week they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country's highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa. Muslims are supposed to face the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia during prayer and the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued an edict in March stipulating westward was the correct direction from the world's most populous Muslim country. It has now said the true direction is north-west. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA - Tags: RELIGION ODDLY IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E67N18IZ01

Podcast Episode

How Saudi Arabia and Iran use Islam in foreign policy

Shadi Hamid, Peter Mandaville, and Fred Dews

Friday, January 11, 2019

Reports

Boys read the Koran inside Markaz Al-Madrasa Al-Islamia, an Islamic seminary and orphanage, during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Shadipora on the outskirts of Srinagar May 20, 2018. REUTERS/Danish Ismail - RC14F69A05E0

Religion & Politics

Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy

Peter Mandaville and Shadi Hamid

November 2018

Continuity and change in U.S.-Japan economic relations

Religion & Politics

How to Islamize an Islamic Republic: Jamaat-e-Islami in its own words

Asif Luqman Qazi

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Alia Tunisi (L) and Sharon Suval (2nd L), first grade school teachers, talk to their students during reading hour at the Hand in Hand Arab Jewish bilingual school in Jerusalem December 3, 2014. The Hand in Hand school in Jerusalem presents an almost too-perfect scene in a tense and divided city, where Jews and Arabs do daily business but rarely befriend one other. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

Religion & Politics

Tribes, identity, and individual freedom in Israel

Natan Sachs and Brian Reeves

March 2017

Supporters of the far right Bayit Yehudi party headed by Naftali Bennett celebrate at the party's headquarters in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv January 22, 2013. Hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged the bruised winner of Israel's election on Tuesday, claiming victory despite unexpected losses to resurgent centre-left challengers. Netanyahu has traditionally looked to religious, conservative parties for backing and is widely expected to seek out self-made millionaire Bennett, who heads the Jewish Home party and stole much of the limelight during the campaign. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

Religion & Politics

Privatizing religion: The transformation of Israel’s Religious-Zionist community

Yair Ettinger

March 2017

An ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, Jewish man walks past Israeli soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda Haredi infantry battalion during their swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem May 26, 2013, marking the end of their basic training in the Israeli Defense Forces. Israel clinched a deal on Wednesday to abolish wholesale exemptions from military service for Jewish seminary students, ending a brief crisis that divided the ruling coalition parties. Picture taken May 26, 2013. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: RELIGION MILITARY POLITICS)

Religion & Politics

Religion, state, and the Jewish identity crisis in Israel

Yedidia Stern

March 2017

Blog Posts

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to students at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, January 10, 2019. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via REUTERS - RC15D1E44B00

Order from Chaos

Around the halls: Brookings experts react to Secretary of State Pompeo’s speech in Cairo

Natan Sachs, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Sharan Grewal, Jeffrey Feltman, Hady Amr, Suzanne Maloney, Ranj Alaaldin, Shadi Hamid, Eric Rosand, and Omar H. Rahman

Thursday, January 10, 2019

A man offers prayers inside the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti during the holy month of Ramadan, in Ajmer, India June 8, 2017. REUTERS/Himanshu Sharma - RC1A46586140

Order from Chaos

Positive branding and soft power: The promotion of Sufism in the war on terror

Alix Philippon

Thursday, December 13, 2018

View of Bibi Heybat Mosque and a Caspian sea shore with oil rigs inBaku May 20, 2002. Pope John Paul II is going to visit the capital ofex-Soviet state Azerbaijan May 22-23. REUTERS/Shamil ZhumatovSZH/CLH/ - RP3DRHZLHUAB

Order from Chaos

Religious soft power in the South Caucasus: The influence of Iran and Turkey

Ansgar Jödicke

Thursday, December 13, 2018

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Islamists on Islamism today: An interview with Amr Darrag, leading Muslim Brotherhood figure

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Thursday, February 9, 2017

Lebanon's flag flies in front of damaged windows at the Starco building in front of the site of a bomb blast, which killed Lebanon's former Finance Minister Mohamad Chatah, in downtown Beirut December 28, 2013. Chatah, who opposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was killed in a massive bomb blast on Friday which one of his political allies blamed on the Shi'ite Hezbollah militia. Former prime minister Saad al-Hariri accused Hezbollah of involvement in the killing of Chatah, his 62-year-old political adviser, saying it was "a new message of terrorism". REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (LEBANON - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTX16VMI

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Religion & Politics

Iran and the headscarf protests

What Iran’s 1979 revolution meant for the Muslim Brotherhood

Hezbollah: Revolutionary Iran’s most successful export

How Saudi Arabia and Iran use Islam in foreign policy

Reports

Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy

How to Islamize an Islamic Republic: Jamaat-e-Islami in its own words

Tribes, identity, and individual freedom in Israel

Privatizing religion: The transformation of Israel’s Religious-Zionist community

Religion, state, and the Jewish identity crisis in Israel

Blog Posts

Around the halls: Brookings experts react to Secretary of State Pompeo’s speech in Cairo

Positive branding and soft power: The promotion of Sufism in the war on terror

Religious soft power in the South Caucasus: The influence of Iran and Turkey

Events

Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy

Trump-driven polarization reflects divergent views of America’s future

The future of political Islam: Trends and prospects

Related Books

Rethinking Political Islam

Megachange

The Islamic State

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Experts debate the intersections of Islam, democracy, pluralism, and citizenship in the Middle East

Islamists on Islamism today: An interview with Amr Darrag, leading Muslim Brotherhood figure

Islamists on Islamism: An interview with Rabih Dandachli, former leader in Lebanon’s Gamaa al-Islamiyya

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