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I\u2019m very grateful for the alert. \u00a0The proposed\u00a0suggestion is a rich one, and I\u2019ll need to reflect on it for a while. \u00a0If there are any historians, political scientists, sociologists, or other such types out there, it would be interesting to get their reactions.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Somebody \u2014 I\u2019m really embarrassed, but I no longer remember who it was, cannot find the note, and, so, cannot thank my benefactor \u2014\u00a0called this article to my attention two or three days ago and has asked my opinion on it: \u00a0 http:\/\/voxeu.org\/article\/religious-decentralisation-and-autocracy-case-islam \u00a0 I\u2019m very grateful for the alert. \u00a0The proposed\u00a0suggestion is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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