From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Sep 02 2003 - 09:10:31 MDT
At 03:19 PM 9/2/03 +0100, Steve Davies wrote:
>What Amara
>is talking about and Abu Zeid is articulating here is more like the 'higher
>criticism' of the mid-nineteenth century, which has destroyed the traditional
>way of reading the Bible for most educated people. Textual criticism of the
>Koran may sound boring but it's actually the way to go.
Spot-on, in my view. But hard to imagine happening in the places where it's
needed, when one recalls cases like the luckless Islamic professor who was
viciously persecuted not long ago by the fervent when he agreed with a
enquiring student that the Prophet's parents, in their youth, probably
*didn't* follow the full order of ordained prescriptions that were only
revealed by Allah to their son many years later.
Damien Broderick
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