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The Battle for the Soul of Islam

The Battle for the Soul of Islam

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Oct 29, 2020
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By James M. Dorsey

The battle for the soul of Islam pits rival Middle Eastern and Asian powers against one another: Turkey, seat of the Islamic world’s last true caliphate; Saudi Arabia, home to the faith’s holy cities; the United Arab Emirates, propagator of a militantly statist interpretation of Islam; Qatar with its less strict version of Wahhabism an…

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