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Tim OrrThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Most of the arguments we see about Islam aren’t really about isolated incidents or disputed facts. They run deeper than that. What’s actually...
There’s a kind of moral clarity that almost feels undeniable when you first hear it. War is terrible. Violence destroys. Peace is better. So...
One way to line up Shiʿi Islam, Christianity, and ultra-Orthodox Judaism is to say they’re all waiting, for the Mahdi, for Christ to return, for...
Eventually, referring to the Islamic Republic as a complicated political system in and of itself misses the point. You can analyze its strategy, its...
In 632 CE, when Muhammad died, the Muslim community found itself in unfamiliar territory. There was grief, of course, but also a real sense of...
When people try to make sense of Iran, they tend to reach for the usual explanations. They talk about nationalism, long-standing grievances, or the...
For most of its history, Shi‘a Islam carried around a tension it never fully settled. The Twelfth Imam was absent, and that absence wasn’t just a...
Something has already changed across the Middle East, and the West hasn’t really caught up. Governments that once tolerated islamist movements have...
The war didn’t start the night the bombs fell. By then, it had been building for years—just not in a way people wanted to admit. You could see it,...
Most Western explanations of Iran start in the same place: colonialism, anti-imperialism, or the country’s rivalry with the United States and...
Iran is one of the few societies in Islamic history where religious scholars eventually replaced the monarchy itself. In most Muslim states, rulers...
History occasionally produces events that overturn the intellectual frameworks used to interpret the modern world. The French Revolution did this in...
My personal journey into understanding why Iran is so intensely hostile toward Israel began when I studied at the Islamic College in London, which...
In my previous essay, “Trump’s Broken Promise: From ‘America First’ to ‘America Only’ – and Antisemitism,” I argued that the recent...
It might be that the West’s greatest weakness is not military or economic, but moral and institutional. We continue to argue over the number of...
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