Dr. Javad T Hashmi
PhD candidate in Religion at @Harvard; Physician, Ethicist, & Islamic Studies specialist
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Looks like the Hindutva fascists found my Deoband thread, so in response, let me say this: Nobody who is *actually* familiar with Hindu & Indic traditions would think of positing s...
Al-Qaeda/ISIS is to Wahhabism as the Taliban is to Deoband. But, whereas everyone now knows about Wahhabism, few know about Deoband. A thread. 1/
I just watched the clip of @mohammed_hijab doing takfīr of me, & must say, it is very light on actual argument. His first claim against me is that I am "just" a "medical doctor" &...
So, get this: a nurse just complained to me about "a Muslim family" that recently lost a loved one in our ER... & she was implying how inconsiderate it was that an "army" of family...
This thread is actually useful to see what extreme measures are needed to sustain this doctrine of perpetual holy war, despite the multitude of Qur'anic verses that say otherwise....
It is certainly true that modern Muslims are split on the issue of Ḥadīth. Nineteenth-century Islamic modernists, such as Sir Sayyid & Cherāgh ʿAlī, pioneered Ḥadīth skepticism, wi...