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| | Islam and Muslim: Islam: A Mosaic, Not a Monolith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Shii believe that Ali, the Prophet’s son-in-law, was divinely inspired and infallible in his interpretations of the Qur’an and the Prophet’s teachings and that only his descendants possessed the sacred blood ties and religious knowledge to qualify as Imams, the Shii’s exemplary leaders. |
 | | Reformers in the past, and especially in the 19th century, attempted to portray the hadith as parables, not to be construed as religious doctrine or law—and certainly not to be used to diminish the exercise of God-given reason in addressing contemporary challenges. |
 | | Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Rushd, better known in the West as Averroës, was a preeminent authority on Aristotle as well as a judge and a physician. |
| opini-islam.blogspot.com /2006/03/islam-mosaic-not-monolith.html (16432 words) |
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