Second, there are several striking parallels between Catholicism and Shia Islam, which make the two traditions natural conversation partners. Iranian writer Vali Nasr, author of the 2006 book The ...

are also his important religious books. This sect believes in Jafriya according to Islamic religious law. The Isna Ashri Shia community dominates most of the world, including Iran, Iraq ...

Isis, he explains, found support in Syria not because the extremist ideology of the former is distantly derived from Sunni Islam and the latter is majority-Shia, but because drought had made ...