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041			_aEnglish
082			_a297.63 _bBRO
100			_aBrown, Jonathan (Jonathan A. C.)
245			_a Misquoting Muhammad : the challenge and choices of interpreting the Prophet's legacy
260			_aLondon _bOneworld, _c2014.
300			_a362 P.
520			_a 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.
650			_a Muḥammad, -- Prophet, -- -632. Qurʼan -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History.
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