Juan Cole

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor in the History Department at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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The Bush administration attacked Iraq in 2003 without any foundation in international law.

But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg

The dawn wind wafts the scent of the New Year / to friends’ delight and triumphant good cheer.

Not you nor I have known the secrets of eternity. / Not you nor I have solved the riddle that the letter hides

From earth’s dark depths to Saturn’s pinnacle / I solved the puzzles of the turning skies.

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The big victors in the rise of a Lebanon-Syria-Jordan Sunni Crescent are Turkiye and the Sunni Arab Gulf monarchies

Ironically, the strike was fully supported by the Muslim president of Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Bennoune He wrote not only of innumerable massacres by French commanders of local populations but also of a vast transfer of landed wealth