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  "en": "Reza Aslan conversation — The Iranian (2019)"
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  "ar": "حوار موقع «ذا إيرانيان» مع رضا أصلان ⁦(9 أبريل 2019)⁩، يقول فيه عن دينه: «مسلم، والتقليد الذي أتبعه في الإسلام هو التصوف».",
  "en": "The Iranian's conversation with Reza Aslan (9 April 2019), in which he answers the question of his religion: 'Muslim. The tradition in Islam I follow is Sufism.'"
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  "kind": "secondary",
  "title": "A Conversation With Reza Aslan",
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    "family": "The Iranian",
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  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
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     2019,
     4,
     9
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  "publisher": "The Iranian (iranian.com)",
  "URL": "https://iranian.com/2019/04/09/a-conversation-with-reza-aslan/",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Interview published on 9 April 2019; read on 1 November 2026. Asked what he would say if someone asked his religion, Aslan answers in his own words: 'Muslim. The tradition in Islam I follow is Sufism.' Independent of the 2013 WNYC statement reported by the Christian Science Monitor; together they are the two sources for his self-identified Sufi adherence.",
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 "updated": "2026-11-06",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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