In the age old tradition of Muslim commentaries, supercommentaries and super-supercommentaries, comes Eteraz's Cleansing With Sunlight: Traditionalist Inadequacy and Terror. This is a commentary on Haroon Moghul's two part commentary (1, 2) on Abdul Hakim Murad's popular essay "Bombing Without Moonlight: The Origins of Suicidal Terrorism". Eteraz is hopeful his own essay is a way out of the modernist/traditionalist duality which vexes many Muslims today.
Haroon has also responded to Eteraz's essay.
Update (26/04): Eteraz writes up Part II of Cleansing With Sunlight. Check it out. Not quite Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd. But close.
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super super-commentaries is the reason we all became taqlidis.
could it be: the reason we're stupid is because we were too smart.
Posted by: eteraz | April 25, 2006 at 03:09 PM
i hope im the proto-rushd
Posted by: eteraz | April 27, 2006 at 02:40 AM
Of course.
Posted by: thabet | April 27, 2006 at 03:33 AM