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
Our Tradition and Traditional Schools of Law
Sacred Law does not only entail the Qur’ān and the Sunnah, it also includes within it methodologies for their interpretation and application. While each school of Sacred Law considers the Qur’ān and the Sunnah as possessing divine legal authority, they also recognize that to derive the rulings from this authority demands the use of human … Continue reading Our Tradition and Traditional Schools of Law
Ibrahim J. Long 