Book Title | The Future Of Islam |
Book Author | John L. Esposito |
Total Pages | 249 |
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Language | English |
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The Future of Islam by John Esposito
THE FUTURE OF ISLAM
This is an important book. Those of us who have been on the front line of the effort, since the atrocities of September n, 2001,
to explain Islam in the Western world soon became aware not simply of the widespread ignorance of Muslim religion in both Europe and the United States but also of an entrenched reluctance to see Islam in a more favorable light.
People often look balked and vaguely mutinous when, for example, you explain that the Qur’an does not in fact advocate the indiscriminate slaughter of the infidel or the propagation of the faith by the sword, and that even though there is still
much to be done to promote gender equality in Muslim countries, the message of the Qur’an was initially friendly to the emancipation of women. One of the most frequently asked questions is: “Why has Islam not had a reformation?”
The query betrays an ignorance of both Islamic and Western history. It assumes that there was something special and unique about the reform movement initiated by Martin Luther (1483—1556) and John Calvin (1509—64) that points to the inherent superiority and progressive nature of our Western culture.
In fact, Luther’s was a typical premodern reformation, similar to many of the movements of islah (“reform”) and tajdid (“renewal”) that have regularly punctuated Muslim history.
They all, Muslim or Christian, follow a similar agenda: they attempt to return to the wellsprings of tradition and cast aside the piety of the immediate past.
Thus Luther and Calvin sought to return to the “pure” Christianity of the Bible and the Lathers of the Church, in exactly the same way as Ahmed ibn Taymiyyah of Damascus (1263—1328) advocated a return to the Qur’an and the sunnah (“customal practice”) of the Prophet Muhammad.
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