http://lb.boell.org/en/2012/08/15/muslim-political-theology-defamation-apostasy-and-anathema
I would recommend reading this article by Prof. Moosa!
Prof Moosa has perceptively captured the religious foundation or inspiration of Muslim rage towards the defamation of the Prophet in a number of contemporary context. The place of the Prophet as ontological and epistemology reference provides some explanation to the widespread acceptance if not support of punishment or attackers who defame him.
But I think that the responses that he documents among Muslim intellectuals, both ulama and non-ulama, do not address the problem that he addresses. The mainly textual and hermeneutical strategies miss the deep rupture posed by modern defamation - informed by modernity, colonialism and post-colonialism. This ruptures threatens the meaning of prophecy, not the application of the texts in modern times.
Great and thoughtful article
I would recommend reading this article by Prof. Moosa!
Prof Moosa has perceptively captured the religious foundation or inspiration of Muslim rage towards the defamation of the Prophet in a number of contemporary context. The place of the Prophet as ontological and epistemology reference provides some explanation to the widespread acceptance if not support of punishment or attackers who defame him.
But I think that the responses that he documents among Muslim intellectuals, both ulama and non-ulama, do not address the problem that he addresses. The mainly textual and hermeneutical strategies miss the deep rupture posed by modern defamation - informed by modernity, colonialism and post-colonialism. This ruptures threatens the meaning of prophecy, not the application of the texts in modern times.
Great and thoughtful article
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