Map quest.(M.E.M.O)

From: The Christian Century | Date: February 12, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

A FRIEND stopped by the other day having just come back from Iran. She brought with her a gift of sweets from the Iranian city of Qom. The only English on the box was an address in case I might want to drop in during a future visit to Qom. It reads:

 
   After the Gas Station, 
   Arak Road, Qom, Iran

That address sounded cozy and chummy, like a small town in Iowa. It did not match my image of Qom. When Scott Appleby and I were studying militant fundamentalisms, we isolated Qom as a center of Shi'a militancy. There are more seminaries there (52 of them) than you would find ...

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