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Hallaq in "The Impossible State" denies that the Islamic society, one governed by Shar'īa, was idealistic. (p. 11) But let's use the same argument of historical experience and see...
Muslims and non-Muslims in the West are peacefully protesting by exercising their right to free speech. They aren't going around the city with weapons forcing schools to stop the L...
"As al-Ghazālī explains, theological arguments are useful to defend religious teachings but they are not meant to analyze reality and to study the true nature of things. Theology (...
Public speakers in 🇵🇰 are generally ignorant about history, philosophy, or any complex subject. Here, @SyedMuzammilOFL on @Mooroo4 podcast just butchers history as he goes. This i...
Before the 17th century, religion meant totally a different thing that today. 'Religio' means any action with strong obligations regardless of whether the act is secular or related...
"...the Crusaders were nothing other than the forerunners of Antichrist." (p.155) The Crusades are mostly portrayed as a Muslim-Christian conflict but the better way to understand...
The problem with Islamic modernism is that it is just a reconstruction of Islam within the framework of Protestant Christianity. The problem with this is that any time you subject...
Another good historical example for the toleration policies of the Muslim rulers: "In the subcontinent as a whole, there is an inverse relation between the degree of Muslim politic...
“Islam was thus central to the tolerationist debate in England in the late 17th century (...) it was generally understood that force was not used by Muslims and that they allowed X...
Secularity and Experience:🧵 Ref: Taylor, A Secular Age 📚 Secularity, as understood by Taylor, is of 3 kinds. In whatever sense or meaning secularity is defined here, it is in cont...
ISLAM & SCIENCE: 🧵 Islam actually paved the way for scientific advancements. Here is one example of the relationship between Islam and astronomy. Since Muslim ulema was critical o...
What did the Muslim study in madrassa in the past? Here is a list of 📚📚 of the Dars-e-Nizami madrassa in South Asia: Grammar-12 Rhetoric-2 Philosophy-3 Logic-11 Theology-3 Jurisp...