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...includes some metaphysical stories whose meaning has been debated by theologians for centuries. The Prophet is said to have advised his followers to read the "The Cave" before Friday prayers, and "some people mistakenly take this to mean that this surah was the Prophet's favorite," says Khaled Abou al-Fadl, an Islamic jurist at UCLA. Bakr says al-Zarqawi frequently quotes extensively from "The Cave" and encourages discussion about its stories...
...CCOE quintet that played in Sanders reflected Darweesh’s pan-hemispheric aesthetic. In addition to a violin and cello (played by Hanna Khoury and Kinan Abou-Afach, respectively), the ensemble included an ‘ud (Kareem Roustom), a guitar-like instrument that is the predecessor to the European lute; a qanum (played by Xauen Music founder and director of CCOE, Hicham Chami), a trapezoidal stringed instrument akin to the zither; and a riqq (Karim Nagi), a handheld percussion instrument similar to the tambourine. Accompanying the instrumentalists were two vocalists, Youssef Kassab and Albert Agha...
Koranic defilement is a recurring Islamic concern. The first recorded prefiguring of the alleged insult at Gitmo may have been in the 1200s when Mongols invading Baghdad were said to have used Koran pages as toilet paper. But as early as the 700s, notes UCLA Islamic-law expert Khaled Abou El Fadl, jurists commenced a centuries-long debate over the just punishment for spitting on it, impaling it or feeding it to goats...
According to Abou El Fadl, one party demanded death: "By the Lord, the crime ... makes the angels in the skies tremble with anger," wrote a 14th century judge. Another group wondered, "Can the word of God in its true form be insulted by the actions of mortals?" and humanely pleaded for leniency for idiots who might try. That tack won out, says Abou El Fadl, and for centuries the hard line was a shrinking minority. But it survived long enough to inform the Saudi Wahhabism that has more recently infected Afghanistan and Pakistan, precisely the locales where the recent demonstrations...
...difficulties of effecting change in Islam is that no clerical hierarchy exists; there is only an assortment of jurists whose authority comes from the willingness of the faithful to accept their decrees. One of the most influential elders in the U.S., Khaled Abou El Fadl, a sheik and a professor of Islamic law at UCLA, told TIME that he sees no reason to keep women from leading. In his view, meritocracy ruled in Muhammad's time, and it should today. "The person who is most knowledgeable should be the one to lead prayer," he says. "Gender is irrelevant." Such words...