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Reforming the Faith: Indonesia’s battle for the soul of Islam

Reforming the Faith: Indonesia’s battle for the soul of Islam

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Oct 30, 2018
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By James M. Dorsey

A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneInand Tumblr.

Nahdlatul Ulama, with 94 million members the world’s largest Sunni Muslim movement, is bent on reforming Islam.

The powerful Indonesian conservative and nationalist group that operates madrassahs or religious seminaries across the archipelago has take…

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