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The Shia's New Pilgrimage
ResumeDr. Mahmoud Ayoub, Professor of Islamic Studies at Temple University, thinks that the best way to avoid religious and ethnic conflicts within Iraq is to create a federated Iraq. Otherwise, he predicts, potential internal conflicts may lead to a division of Iraq along ethnic-religious lines.
Click the "Listen" link above to hear more about the role Iraq's religious parties will play in the establishment of the new state of Iraq.
Guests:
Benjamin Lowy, photographer for Time Magazine
Dr. Mahmoud Ayoub, Professor of Islamic Studies at Temple University
Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan and author of "Sacred Space And Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi'ite Islam"
This program aired on April 22, 2003.