Omar Sadr and Herschel Hepler discuss Afghanistan’s Liturgical Quire, the oldest Hebrew and Judeo-Persian prayer manuscript in the world. This remarkable manuscript compiles three prayer genres into a single bounded book which in Judaism is …
How Clergy & Autocrats Empowered Each Other
Omar Sadr and Ahmet Kuru discuss the role of ulama in reinforcing authoritarianism in the Muslim world, the complex and often ambivalent relationship between religious scholars and state, models for governance in the religious sphere, …