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The question of tradition – and therefore also of education, of the transmission of the patrimony of faith to the new generations – is one of the crucial questions in the Christian and Catholic camp … But the question seems to be even more burning for Islam. (Sandro Magister, chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it)
This is tightly interwoven with the question of the interpretation of the Qur’an. The fundamentalist currents inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood, for example, idealize the original Islam, taking it as their only model and refusing to apply to the Qur’an the criteria of scientific as well as theological interpretation.
Muslims who interpret the Qur’an using methods similar to those applied to the Bible by Christian exegesis are few and far between. The great centers of Islamic theology, like Al-Azhar University in Cairo, are very distrustful of the modern methodologies of literary analysis. The fruits of a critical interpretation of the Qur’an come almost exclusively from non-Muslim scholars.
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Islam Has Its Luthers, Too. But Reform Is Far Away (chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it)
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