Word: koranic
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...Middle Eastern affairs]; we didn’t really have to order many books specially.” At both stores, popular titles included Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong and Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid. But the Koran is also enjoying brisk sales. In seeking intellectual and emotional resources for coping with the crisis no material seems too esoteric, no subject so “specialized” as to be off-limits to the curious layperson...
...document is a four-page set of instructions found in the baggage of terrorist ringleader Mohammed Atta, who allegedly piloted the plane that slammed into the World Trade Center’s north tower. It is a recipe for mass murder with prayers and passages of the Koran for each step along the way. This is the reality behind Sept. 11. These are the convictions that made men kill. These words—these deranged doctrines of death—are what the hijackers actually believed...
Ramadan, the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, is designated by the Koran as a time of prayer, spiritual reflection and fasting. Paradoxically, one Muslim nation is this year faced with the unusual, if not unprecedented, prospect of war during the holy month. And with no sign of an imminent end to the conflict in Afghanistan, American military officials must consider whether fighting should continue into Ramadan, which begins...
...injunction to “slay...the unbelievers” that Douthat cites regarding violence against non-Muslims is not to be found in the Koran. This quotation is a pure fabrication—the writing of an artifical “Koran” to support a flawed argument. Although Douthat did not make this error intentionally, his failure to check his sources on such a fundamental matter results in misinformation and bad journalism. However, reading these verses in these terms would make sense if and only if the rest of the Koran and the sayings of the Prophet...
Verses of the Koran cannot be decontextualized or interpreted independent of the entire tradition. For 14 centuries, scholars of the religion have perfected a science of Islamic jurisprudence that is both elaborate and subtle. Yet both Douthat and bin Laden ignore contexts, misquote texts and elaborate as they will without any respect for a tradition that is both developed and tested...