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Hussein Rashid interviewed Scott Korb about his new book, Light without Fire. We’ve got the audio. Continue Reading →
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Stephen Prothero measures the distance Franklin has fallen from the Graham tree. It’s old news by now that Sojourners and other progressive Christian organizations have a gay problem. Hussein Rashid asks Muslims how they will treat LGBT people. What do some Russian women see in Vladimir Putin? Paul the Apostle, reports the Telegraph (via disinfo.com). With a cue from Rob Bell, Chris Armstrong constructs a Handbook to Hell. The When I Return Project: What will you do when you return to a liberated Palestine? Anthea Butler on Glenn Beck’s plans to host a Restoring Courage rally in Jerusalem on August 20 this year. An excerpt from Frank Schaeffer’s new book, about how “The Right” is waging a war on “all things public.” David Bahati, the author of Uganda’s “Kill the Gays Bill” may soon be that country’s Minister of Ethics. Terry Mattingly begs for a definition of fundamentalist. Continue Reading →
The Meanings and Uses of Shari'ah
From Newt Gingrich’s talk at American Enterprise Institute last month to the controversy surrounding a proposed Muslim religious center at Ground Zero in New York City, from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to use of Islamophobia to alter American foreign policy in the Middle East, misrepresentations of Shari’ah abound.
The Revealer‘s asked scholars, journalists and academics to weigh in on what shari’ah is, how the media often get it wrong, how it’s being used to create fear of Islam and Muslims, and how it is framed to justify continued military defense of “American values.”
Articles:
The Problem of Equating Shari’ah with Law, by Hussein Rashid
Contesting the Sharia: The Ideological Interpretation (and Misinterpretation) of Islamic Law, by Najam Haider
Shari’a and Women’s Rights in Afghanistan, by Najam Haider
Islamophobia: Stoking Fears about an American Community, by Joshua M.Z. Stanton
The Perversion of the Shari’ah and the Limits of Tolerance, by Tariq al-Jamil
As more articles in this series are published, we’ll list them here.
Editor’s note: the accepted spellings of Qur’an and Shari’ah vary. We’ve chosen to defer to our writers rather than impose a consistent usage. Continue Reading →
The Meanings and Uses of Shari’ah
From Newt Gingrich’s talk at American Enterprise Institute last month to the controversy surrounding a proposed Muslim religious center at Ground Zero in New York City, from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to use of Islamophobia to alter American foreign policy in the Middle East, misrepresentations of Shari’ah abound.
The Revealer‘s asked scholars, journalists and academics to weigh in on what shari’ah is, how the media often get it wrong, how it’s being used to create fear of Islam and Muslims, and how it is framed to justify continued military defense of “American values.”
Articles:
The Problem of Equating Shari’ah with Law, by Hussein Rashid
Contesting the Sharia: The Ideological Interpretation (and Misinterpretation) of Islamic Law, by Najam Haider
Shari’a and Women’s Rights in Afghanistan, by Najam Haider
Islamophobia: Stoking Fears about an American Community, by Joshua M.Z. Stanton
The Perversion of the Shari’ah and the Limits of Tolerance, by Tariq al-Jamil
As more articles in this series are published, we’ll list them here.
Editor’s note: the accepted spellings of Qur’an and Shari’ah vary. We’ve chosen to defer to our writers rather than impose a consistent usage. Continue Reading →
The Meanings and Uses of Shari’ah
From Newt Gingrich’s talk at American Enterprise Institute last month to the controversy surrounding a proposed Muslim religious center at Ground Zero in New York City, from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to use of Islamophobia to alter American foreign policy in the Middle East, misrepresentations of Shari’ah abound.
The Revealer‘s asked scholars, journalists and academics to weigh in on what shari’ah is, how the media often get it wrong, how it’s being used to create fear of Islam and Muslims, and how it is framed to justify continued military defense of “American values.”
Articles:
The Problem of Equating Shari’ah with Law, by Hussein Rashid
Contesting the Sharia: The Ideological Interpretation (and Misinterpretation) of Islamic Law, by Najam Haider
Shari’a and Women’s Rights in Afghanistan, by Najam Haider
Islamophobia: Stoking Fears about an American Community, by Joshua M.Z. Stanton
The Perversion of the Shari’ah and the Limits of Tolerance, by Tariq al-Jamil
As more articles in this series are published, we’ll list them here.
Editor’s note: the accepted spellings of Qur’an and Shari’ah vary. We’ve chosen to defer to our writers rather than impose a consistent usage. Continue Reading →
The Problem of Equating Shari'ah with Law
This article is the first of an ongoing series that will examine what shari’ah is, how the media often get it wrong, and how it’s being used to create fear of Islam and Muslims and to justify continued military defense of “American values.”
by Hussein Rashid
Every time I hear someone on TV mention “shari’ah,” I think of the movie The Princess Bride and the line “I do not think it means what you think it means.” I am amused that shari’ah has come to mean “law” as a canonical system for how Muslims are to behave and act. Weak states use the term shari’ah in lieu of “law,” un-inquisitive press use the term the same way, and Muslims ignorant of their own history adopt that understanding, reinforcing the cycle.
Shari’ah literally means a way or a path, usually to a watering hole. Traditionally, it is meant to guide Muslims as to how they should fulfill their religious obligations. The vast majority of criminal and civil issues were handled by state authorities through a systemized code of law. This legal system was called qanun, from the Greek word kanon. With the rise of the modern nation-state, states seeking to be authentically “Islamic” adopted a wide variety of laws and dubbed them shari’ah, even though in the classical system they would be qanun. Continue Reading →
The Problem of Equating Shari’ah with Law
This article is the first of an ongoing series that will examine what shari’ah is, how the media often get it wrong, and how it’s being used to create fear of Islam and Muslims and to justify continued military defense of “American values.”
by Hussein Rashid
Every time I hear someone on TV mention “shari’ah,” I think of the movie The Princess Bride and the line “I do not think it means what you think it means.” I am amused that shari’ah has come to mean “law” as a canonical system for how Muslims are to behave and act. Weak states use the term shari’ah in lieu of “law,” un-inquisitive press use the term the same way, and Muslims ignorant of their own history adopt that understanding, reinforcing the cycle.
Shari’ah literally means a way or a path, usually to a watering hole. Traditionally, it is meant to guide Muslims as to how they should fulfill their religious obligations. The vast majority of criminal and civil issues were handled by state authorities through a systemized code of law. This legal system was called qanun, from the Greek word kanon. With the rise of the modern nation-state, states seeking to be authentically “Islamic” adopted a wide variety of laws and dubbed them shari’ah, even though in the classical system they would be qanun. Continue Reading →
The Problem of Equating Shari’ah with Law
This article is the first of an ongoing series that will examine what shari’ah is, how the media often get it wrong, and how it’s being used to create fear of Islam and Muslims and to justify continued military defense of “American values.”
by Hussein Rashid
Every time I hear someone on TV mention “shari’ah,” I think of the movie The Princess Bride and the line “I do not think it means what you think it means.” I am amused that shari’ah has come to mean “law” as a canonical system for how Muslims are to behave and act. Weak states use the term shari’ah in lieu of “law,” un-inquisitive press use the term the same way, and Muslims ignorant of their own history adopt that understanding, reinforcing the cycle.
Shari’ah literally means a way or a path, usually to a watering hole. Traditionally, it is meant to guide Muslims as to how they should fulfill their religious obligations. The vast majority of criminal and civil issues were handled by state authorities through a systemized code of law. This legal system was called qanun, from the Greek word kanon. With the rise of the modern nation-state, states seeking to be authentically “Islamic” adopted a wide variety of laws and dubbed them shari’ah, even though in the classical system they would be qanun. Continue Reading →
In the News: How to talk about what we need to talk about?
A round-up of recent religion news. Continue Reading →
In the News: Wins and Losses
A round-up of recent religion news. Continue Reading →