{"id":625,"date":"2008-02-27T09:02:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T16:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=625"},"modified":"2009-08-28T17:02:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T00:02:36","slug":"a-reformation-in-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"A Reformation In Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting news from Turkey: a team of scholars has been revising and re-interpreting the Hadith<\/a> — collections of sayings of Mohammed that have quasi-sacred status in Islam — in light of the assumption that they were intended to interact with the culture of the day, and that they must be re-interpreted in light of today’s culture:<\/p>\n

Some sayings accepted as being genuinely spoken by Muhammad have been altered and reinterpreted.<\/p>\n

Prof Mehmet Gormez, a senior official in the Department of Religious Affairs and an expert on the Hadith, gives a telling example.<\/p>\n

“There are some messages that ban women from travelling for three days or more without their husband’s permission and they are genuine.<\/p>\n

“But this isn’t a religious ban. It came about because in the Prophet’s time it simply wasn’t safe for a woman to travel alone like that. But as time has passed, people have made permanent what was only supposed to be a temporary ban for safety reasons.”<\/p>\n

The project justifies such bold interference in the 1,400-year-old content of the Hadith by rigorous academic research.<\/p>\n

Prof Gormez points out that in another speech, the Prophet said “he longed for the day when a woman might travel long distances alone”.<\/p>\n

So, he argues, it is clear what the Prophet’s goal was. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting news from Turkey: a team of scholars has been revising and re-interpreting the Hadith — collections of sayings of Mohammed that have quasi-sacred status in Islam — in light of the assumption that they were intended to interact with the culture of the day, and that they must be re-interpreted in light of today’s … Continue reading “A Reformation In Islam”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}