Prashant Waikar and Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman consider the 2019 Kuala Lumpur Summit as a site of geopolitical competition in the Muslim world and note how the summit reflects increasing tensions between Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, as Malaysia vies for a larger role in the Muslim world.
The Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power
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The Berkley Forum sat down with Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville, director of the Berkley Center’s Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power Project, to discuss tensions between Iran and the United States in the broader context of religion and politics in the Middle East.
September 19, 2019
How Turkish is Islam in Lithuania?
Egdūnas Račius explains how Turkish involvement in and influence on Islamic life in Lithuania led to a split in the Lithuanian Muslim community following the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey. He concludes that Turkey is unlikely to influence Muslim communities in Lithuania in the near future.
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