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Can Islam undergo its own Reformation? “Osama Bin Laden didn't strap on any explosive vest or learn how to fly himself, you know.” Posted by Cliverton. Marcus left this comment on a recent post Freedom, Understanding and the Middle East:
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One more pre-Reformation example of the religion of the heart. In recent years, I have fallen in love—I don't know what else to call it—with perhaps the greatest western poem, the three-part Comedy of Dante Alighieri. As Wilken reminds us,
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For most of his life, Ghannushi has advocated non-violent reformation of Tunisian politics and society along the lines of an ijtihadi Islam or an Islam which is creatively interpreted based on independent human reasoning and applied according to the
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