That means back to the 7th century. This article is from 2008, but the hope for a ‘reform Islam’ was as preposterous then as it is now. And, as WoJ readers know, deleting the “misogynistic hadith” fizzled right there and then under pressure from the clerics.
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What Ian Traynor here writes in the Grunard is written in ignorance. But as we all know, ignorance is bliss. Good for Traynor.
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Turkey is engaged in a bold and profound attempt to rewrite the basis for Islamic sharia law while also officially reinterpreting the Qur’an for the modern age.
The exercise in reforming Islamic jurisprudence, sponsored by the modernising and mildly Islamic government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, is being seen as an iconoclastic campaignto establish a 21st century form of Islam, fusing Muslim beliefs and tradition with European and western philosophical methods and principles.
The result, say experts following the ambitious experiment, could be to diminish Muslim discrimination against women, banish some of the brutal penalties associated with Islamic law, such as stoning and amputation, and redefine Islam as a modern, dynamic force in the large country that pivots between east and west, leaning into the Middle East while aspiring to join the European Union.