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Why family ties in Kūfa mattered for early Islamic politics
Read more: Why family ties in Kūfa mattered for early Islamic politicsAliya A Ali explores how kinship and marriage alliances shaped political power and governance in the early Islamic city of Kūfa.

A canonization that caused a diplomatic rift in Europe
Eduardo Ángel Cruz investigates the overlap between the political and the spiritual in canonizations of the Catholic Church