Sublime

The fact is that nearly one out of five people in the world are Muslims. And while some of them may share bin Laden’s grievances against the Western powers, very few share his interpretation of jihad.

These five categories are designed to demonstrate Islam’s overarching concern with not only forbidding vice, but…

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As will become apparent, the debate over the nature and function of the Quran and the Shariah has in no way ended. Indeed, contemporary Muslim scholars such as Abdolkarim Soroush, Tariq Ramadan, Abdullahi An-Na’im, Amina Wadoud, Khaled Abou El Fadl, and many others have been vigorously pushing the Muslim community to reopen the gates of ijtihad and

religion is (probably) an evolutionary adaptation for binding groups together and helping them to create communities with a shared morality.

Khomeini argued that in the absence of the Mahdi, divine guidance could come only from the Hidden Imam’s representatives on…

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as Keepers of the Keys, the Quraysh’s authority in Mecca was not just political or economic but also religious.

theologically speaking, Muhammad’s assertion that “there is no god but God” would have been neither scandalous nor, for that matter, original in Mecca.

Radical Islam is the Islamic reformation.

despite common perception in the West, the actions of Jihadist groups like al-Qaeda have been so roundly condemned not only by the vast majority of the world’s Muslims, but even by other militant groups like the Palestinian Hamas or Lebanon’s Hizbullah.