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...literal word of God. But in France, home to the largest Islamic community in Europe, an effort is in full swing to separate the eternal message of Islam from its medieval cultural baggage. Some of the fruits of that effort can be sampled in Loi d'Allah, Loi des Hommes (Law of Allah, Law of Men; Albin Michel) an extended dialogue in which Muslim sociologist Leïla Babès and Tareq Oubrou, rector of the Mosquée de Bordeaux, thrash out their often opposing views on the roles of women and individual freedom in Islam. Although...
...rapture. Indonesia's favorite preacher breaks into a bawdy grin as he jokes about the challenges facing Muslim men with more than one wife. His eyes become grave and confiding as he talks about his own family. His face constricts with emotion for his finale, as he beseeches Allah to bring together Indonesia's bickering leaders, to bring together its Muslim clerics, to bring the whole nation together to face these troubled times...
...that Muhammad later says his own message is but a restoration of Abrahamic faith. The Koran includes scenes from Abraham's childhood in which he chides his father for believing in idols and survives, Daniel-like, in a fiery furnace to which he is condemned for his fealty to Allah. And in the Koranic version of Abraham's ultimate test, Abraham tells his son of God's command, and the boy replies, "O my father! Do that which thou art commanded. Allah willing, thou shalt find me of the steadfast." Notes the Koran approvingly: "They had both surrendered," using...
...Somewhat like Paul, Islam concluded that God chooses his people on grounds of commitment rather than lineage, meaning that Abraham's only true followers are true believers--i.e., Muslims. Moreover, if Allah ever had a pact with the Jews as a race, they backslid out of it in episodes such as the worship of the golden calf in the Torah's book of Exodus. Indeed, the Koran advises Muslims proselytized by either Jews or Christians to answer, "Nay... (we follow) the religion of Abraham...
...Jalaluddin Rumi was, among many other things, a lover of irony, of the odd and absurd juxtapositions that life creates. So it may be that he would have savored the fact that Madonna set translations of his 13th century verses praising Allah to music on Deepak Chopra's 1998 CD, A Gift of Love; that Donna Karan has used recitations of his poetry as a background to her fashion shows; that Oliver Stone wants to make a film of his life; and that even though he hailed from Balkh, a town near Mazar-i-Sharif situated in what is today...