This is my interview (PART 1 & PART 2) with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and Rabbi Reuven Firestone, hosted by the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston and the Other Side program on The Kube.
Tag: halacha
Muslims should welcome a new, modern perspective on prophet’s sayings (CSM LINK)
The Christian Science Monitor
Opinion
By Emran El-Badawi, Op-ed contributor / August 7, 2013
As the Islamic fasting period of Ramadan ends this week, Muslims might be curious about a modern interpretation of the Hadith – the sayings and customs of the prophet Muhammad – which is now being published in Turkey. Certainly scholars will be.
Thousands of the prophet’s sayings and traditions were circulated and eventually collected in the centuries after his death in 632. The sheer size of Hadith collections and their archaic 7th century Arabian context have made the texts too intractable for many Muslims today. This is the challenge which the six-year Turkish Hadith project, with its selections and interpretive essays, seeks to overcome.
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