No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam

156 No god but God of Jesus admonishing him to stop his persecution of the Christians, Umar was transformed by divine interventi ...

This Religion Is a Science 157 an intrinsic power that was naturally associated with the Divine. It was this same intrinsic divi ...

158 No god but God actual words of God handed down through Muhammad, who was little more than a passive conduit. In purely liter ...

This Religion Is a Science 159 influence in all the major schools of law and theology with the excep- tion of the Shi‘ite school ...

160 No god but God Another way in which Muslims experience baraka is through the art, or rather the science, of Quranic recitati ...

This Religion Is a Science 161 and those revealed in Medina—thereby creating a loose chronology that helped clarify their interp ...

�� 162 No god but God because the eternal, uncreated Quran could not possibly be consid- ered a product of Muhammad’s society, h ...

This Religion Is a Science 163 The moral provisions of the Shariah are made concrete through the discipline of fiqh, or Islamic ...

164 No god but God Prophet as a primary source of law. As rigorous as scholars like al- Bukhari and Ibn al-Hajjaj were in scruti ...

This Religion Is a Science 165 orthodoxy among the Muslim community. But more importantly, ijma served to consolidate the author ...

166 No god but God largest and most diverse legal tradition with regard to breadth of interpretation. And finally, the Hanbali S ...

This Religion Is a Science 167 The Islamic law has not come into being the way conventional law has. It has not had to undergo t ...

168 No god but God twenty-two years of Muhammad’s ministry, the Quran was in an almost constant state of flux, sometimes alterin ...

This Religion Is a Science 169 changes in the Revelation, the early Quranic interpreters were able to create a helpful chronolog ...

170 No god but God The problem is that it is practically impossible to reconcile the Traditionalist view of the Shariah with mod ...

������ 7. In the Footsteps of Martyrs FROM SHI‘ISM TO KHOMEINISM E ARLY I N THE morning on the tenth day of the Islamic month of ...

172 No god but God Husayn ordered them to kneel in a tight formation with their lances pointing out, so that when the enemy hors ...

In the Footsteps of Martyrs 173 Rising to his feet, he lifts his bloody hands to heaven and prays: “We are for God, and to God s ...

174 No god but God Yet few as they may have been, the Shi‘atu Ali were still an influ- ential faction, particularly among the Ir ...

In the Footsteps of Martyrs 175 scholars and Quran reciters, he also set Umayyad precedent by not directly meddling in the theol ...