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Khomeini gives permanent and non-permanent marriages equal status and includes no moral distinction between the two.
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― Survey of Shia Marriage in Iran: Based on literature, media and personal interviews
― Survey of Shia Marriage in Iran: Based on literature, media and personal interviews
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As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what he said was true enough, just as some of it was arguably less so. (Edward incautiously dismissed 'speculations about the latest conspiracy to blow up buildings or sabotage commercial airliners' as the feverish product of 'highly exaggerated stereotypes.') Covering Islam took as its point of departure the Iranian revolution, which by then had been fully counter-revolutionized by
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― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
