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Differing Orthodoxies

Abu Hamid Ghazali, in his work, Mizanal Amal (The Scales of Action) commented on the place of madhhabs (of differing schools of Islamic thought) within the larger context of religious belief and knowledge. In it Ghazali outlines three levels of madhhab which, in a sense, parallel the three primary levels which the human soul (nafs) […]

2009 06 10 Irshaad Uncategorized
Islam
politics
religion
ideology
terrorism
irfan
Muslims
philosophy
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Discussion on takfir

A website called Seeking Ilm recently published a post about an Ottoman fatwa that pronounced takfir on a group of “rafida“. Takfir is when one group of Muslims declare another group of Muslims to be kafirs and therefore outside the bounds of Islam. The article saw some possible benefit in such a fatwa being revived […]

2008 10 30 Irshaad Islam
religion
Islam 101
takfir Comments (0)