An intriguing article appeared on the BBC yesterday reporting that theologians in Turkey have been commissioned by the government to revise the Hadith – an important text for Muslims interpreting the Koran (and an important source for Sharia law).
This may well be a very positive thing – particularly in relation to the rights and [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2008’
‘Revising’ Islamic texts in Turkey
The Archbishop, Sharia Law and “human dignity as such”
The Rev Dr Williams has done it again.
No comments from me, but a pointer to the actual text – What He Said since in all the reporting, that often seem quite hard to get to.
A very helpful analysis by David Field – Meet your new god – who argues that this is just an explicit [...]
