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However, by far the most significant challenge to Khomeinism has come from outside of Iran, in neighboring Iraq. The 2002 U.S.–led war to depose Saddam Hussein had the somewhat unexpected effect of liberating the other major Shi‘ite school of law, in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf. Led by the Iranian-born Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a man many co

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The moral provisions of the Shariah are made concrete through the discipline of fiqh, or Islamic jurisprudence, of which the Quran is its first and most important source. The problem, however, is that the Quran is not a book of laws. While there are some eighty or so verses that deal directly with legal issues—matters like inheritance and the statu

M). Theosis opposes deism by stating in the words of Paul that “we no longer live” but that Jesus’s being lives in and through us as Jesus shares our being by entering our person through the negation of our death experiences. Faith and its formation, then, is something radically different from a program for making our institutions effective by maki

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