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How To Read the Quran
one of the comments: where there’s a ta’wil there’s a way. ahahaha.
on a more relevant note, while i know Aslan knows islam doesn’t have centralised clergy, the article makes it appear as though it does.
There might be no central clergy, but as with any text based tradition a ‘class’ of people have emerged and who are seen as ‘authoritative’.
yes, agreed.
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fathima 9:06 pm on November 22, 2008 Permalink |
one of the comments:
where there’s a ta’wil there’s a way.
ahahaha.
on a more relevant note, while i know Aslan knows islam doesn’t have centralised clergy, the article makes it appear as though it does.
thabet 11:37 am on November 23, 2008 Permalink |
There might be no central clergy, but as with any text based tradition a ‘class’ of people have emerged and who are seen as ‘authoritative’.
fathima 3:14 pm on November 23, 2008 Permalink |
yes, agreed.