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razib

06:32:01 pm on May 12, 2008 | # | |
Tags: balkans, sufi, wine

20% of albanian muslims are historically of the bektashi sect. they drink wine, and even owned vineyards. they were popular among the janissaries, though ataturk banned the order so that it relocated to albania in the 1920s.
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Ali Eteraz 10:29 pm on May 13, 2008 | #

Under Hanafi fiqh — I am going from memory here — drinking date liquor was only makruh i.e. neutral (like divorce, or eating crayfish).
muse 10:40 pm on May 13, 2008 | #

makruh = diskliked. mubah = neutral.
Willow 12:33 am on May 14, 2008 | #

…What’s the problem with crayfish?
razib 11:14 pm on May 14, 2008 | #

well, does shrimp not equal crayfish? my family is hardcore hanafi (grandpa comes from a long line of ulams) and we are into shrimp to the max….

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