February 2016
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Religion
The Triumph of Classical Islam and the slow fall of the Islamicate World
Asking whether the solidification of Islamic theology harmed the Islamicate world, the author reproduces a review of Robert Reilly’s book The Closing of the Muslim Mind, which blames the victory…
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Religion
Adonis: “Islam Cannot be Modernized”
The author thinks Adonis is probably right about classical Islam, whose apostasy and blasphemy rules resist top-down reform, but argues change will still come as practice outruns legal and theological…