Talk Islam » ijtihaad http://talkislam.info a crescent waxing eloquent Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:53:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en Reinterpreting Islam? http://talkislam.info/2008/06/03/reinterpreting-islam/ http://talkislam.info/2008/06/03/reinterpreting-islam/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:33:46 +0000 Tariq Nelson http://talkislam.info/2008/06/03/reinterpreting-islam/ 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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