Tariq Nelson
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07:33:46 am on June 3, 2008 | # | |
An article in Newsweek on the effort to reinterpret Islamic theology
Momentum is building within the Muslim world to re-examine what had seemed immutable tenets of the faith, to challenge what had been taken as literal truths and to open wide the doors of interpretation (ijtihad) that some schools of Islam tried to close centuries ago.
Personally, I believe that an ‘American’ Islam will take a different shape than that of the Muslim World
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thabet 8:17 am on June 3, 2008 | #
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t ijtihad related to ‘law’ and not ‘theology’? I think it can be shown that ijtihad in law has been ongoing (there was no real ‘closure’), even if its scope has become narrower.
Tariq Nelson 8:25 am on June 3, 2008 | #
perhaps I should have said ‘law’ instead of theology because the things mentioned in the article are law (fiqh) issues such as allowing women to travel alone, etc
Willow 2:22 pm on June 3, 2008 | #
Dear God, are we still on this? The “doors” of “ijtihad”? Really?
Abstractions upon abstractions…
I’d like to invite the One Tight Slap people from MTV India to come here and sort out the Islamic reform movement.