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

�� 136 No god but God remains the model of Muslim piety: the light that illuminates the straight path to God. He is, in the word ...

The Rightly Guided Ones 137 sacring all the Umayya they could find. But the Shi‘ah ultimately rejected Abassid claims of legitim ...

138 No god but God sovereign entities and members of a unified worldwide community. Some have argued, a few of them violently, t ...

The Rightly Guided Ones 139 over a social revolution that was already under way against Iran’s despotic American-backed monarchy ...

������ 6. This Religion Is a Science THE DEVELOPMENT OF ISLAMIC THEOLOGY AND LAW THE INQUISITION BEGINS with a simple question: ...

This Religion Is a Science 141 over whether the Quran was created by God or not holds no interest for him. He is a military comm ...

142 No god but God However, he has rebuffed all attempts to make him compromise, insisting instead on maintaining his heretical ...

This Religion Is a Science 143 civil affairs of the community, while the Ulama guided the believers on the straight path to God. ...

�� 144 No god but God court. By the reign of the Caliph al-Qadir (d. 1031), the vast majority of the Traditionalist Ulama, espec ...

This Religion Is a Science 145 “speech,” and Muslim theologians were often pejoratively referred to as ahl al-kalam, the “People ...

146 No god but God which salvation is achieved has become the standard (orthodox) doc- trine of the vast majority of Muslims in ...

This Religion Is a Science 147 who is unable to perform them for any justifiable reason; if one wishes, missed salats can always ...

148 No god but God ordered his followers to fast with the Jews in commemoration of their flight from Egypt. Only later was the f ...

This Religion Is a Science 149 and some ancient relics. Yet in its utter simplicity, the Ka‘ba and the rites associated with it ...

150 No god but God identically dressed, there is no longer any rank, or class, or status; there is no gender and no ethnic or ra ...

This Religion Is a Science 151 “Being,” in the classical philosophical sense, but only with the recog- nition that these are mea ...

152 No god but God As the starting point for all doctrinal discussions in Islam, the Oneness and Unity of God clearly raise som ...

This Religion Is a Science 153 Hanbal (780–855), who accepted God’s absolute control over human affairs but still maintained hum ...

154 No god but God speculation, as the Mu‘tazilah claimed, there would be no need for prophets and revelations; the result would ...

�� This Religion Is a Science 155 This formula horrified the Rationalists, and especially scholars such as Ibn Sina (Avicenna in ...