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Read More »Call for Papers: International Qur’anic Studies Association Annual Meeting 2021
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This article intends to show that, unlike the anti-Islamic claims and unlike what fake replicas of Islamic governments—like that of the ISIS—have shown to the world, Islam is a religion that respects and...
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