In his article Technology and Religious Change: Islam and the Impact of Print, Francis Robinson analyzes the relatively late use of the printing press by Muslims, who only utilized en masse about four hundred years after it had been well established in the Christian world.[1] This is not because Muslims were unaware of the technology. … Continue reading Technology & Religious Change
A Struggle For Authority
For Sunni Muslims, authority to speak on behalf of the religion, and to command from it the obedience of the religion's adherents, is not derived from a divinely established religious hierarchy. Rather, authority is derived from a divinely revealed text- the Qur’ān- and the authenticated sayings and actions of a divinely influenced messenger- the Sunnah. … Continue reading A Struggle For Authority
Ibrahim J. Long 