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[lollardfish]

This article in the NY Times Magazine is a must-read as it seems to clearly articulate a number of things that many people do not understand about Islam, particularly Shariah. I do not know if the author's location of the transformation of Shariah to something less flexible to the late 19th/c Ottoman Empire is controversial or not, but it seems reasonable.

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[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

All NY Times stuff is free, though some of it you have to sign in for (but you can just use bugmenot extension to get through that).