The West is looking for a single interlocutor, but authority in Islam is decentralized.
LEADER
- In Search of a Leader, Martino Diez
FOCUS
- The Qur’an as a Political Programme, Asma Afsaruddin
- How the Shi‘ite Clergy Entered Politics, Rainer Brunner
- The Sufis’ Soft Power, Rainer Brunner
- Fatwas as a Weapon against Fanaticism, Ridwan al-Sayyid
- Does al-Azhar Speak for All Sunnis?, Michele Brignone
- The Unpublished Text on Islam’s Reform, Salah Fadl
- Saudi Ulama, Guardians of Change, Raihan Ismail
- Muslim Authority Meets Europe. And Changes, Abdessamad Belhaj
CLASSIC
- The Twelve “Keepers” of the Qur’an, Martino Diez
- The Imam as Divine Proof, Testi da al-Kulaynī
- Theology-Fiction: Prophesying the Umma to Come, Martino Diez
- The Erosion of Sharia, passages from al-Juwaynī
DOCUMENTS
“Unmasking the Peddlers of Illusions about the Afterlife”
Excerpts from Pope Francis’ speeches in Cairo.
REPORTAGE
- Wanted: a German Islam, Rolla Scolari
REVIEWS
- The Caliphate’s Metamorphosis, Chiara Pellegrino
- The ‘Alawis’ Forgotten Past, Martino Diez
- Salafism: the History of a Misunderstanding, Rocio Daga Portillo
- If Global Doesn’t Rhyme with Universal, Michele Brignone
- The Third Way of the Qur’anic Jesus, Rolla Scolari
- If a Comedy Explains More than a Theological Conference Does, Emma Neri