Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-349) and index.
Contents:
The hadith of the seventy-two virgins. A map of the Islamic interpretive tradition -- The fragile truth of scripture -- Clinging to the canon in a ruptured world -- Muslim Martin Luthers and the paradox of tradition -- Lying about the Prophet of God -- When scripture can't be true -- Appendix IV: Marracci and Ockley on Aisha's marriage to the Prophet -- Appendix II: Hadiths on a parent killing his child -- Appendix III: The hadith of Riba and incest -- Appendix IV: The hadith of the seventy-two virgins.
Summary:
Few things provoke controversy in the modern world like the religion brought by Muhammad. There is alarm over jihad, underage marriage and the threat of amputation or stoning under Shariah law. Sometimes rumor, sometimes based in fact and often misunderstood, the tenets of Islamic law and dogma were not set in the religion's founding moments. They were developed over centuries by the clerical class of Muslim scholars. MISQUOTING MUHAMMAD takes the reader back in time through Islamic civilization and traces how and why such controversies developed, offering an inside view into how key and controversial aspects of Islam took shape. From the protests of the Arab Spring to Istanbul at the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and from the ochre red walls of Delhi's great mosques to the trade routes of Islam's Indian Ocean world, Misquoting Muhammad lays out how Muslim intellectuals have sought to balance reason and revelation, weigh science and religion, and negotiate the truths of scripture amid shifting values.
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