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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 29 > Iraq violence puts off plan for seminary

Iraq violence puts off plan for seminary

By David Grant / The Bulletin
August 29, 2009

DETROIT " It took years for a family of prominent American Shiite scholars to build a specialized seminary that would train Americans and Europeans to lead mosques in the West.

The founders chose a location in their native Iraq, in the holy Shiite city of Karbala, where the students would....

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