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Moderation by Majority
Who decides which Shiʿis are moderate? This week I finished a paper on Asadullāh Mubashshirī’s preface to the Persian translation of Henry Corbin’s history of Islamic philosophy. In it I cited Rasūl Jaʿfariyān with gratitude, as the historian who had mapped the reformers of twentieth-century Iran who wanted an Islam purified of superstition. I closed… — read more
