The discourse regarding qadar in early Islamic political thought is significant with regard to caliphal authority and represents an avenue for dissent in the nascent caliphal state system. If free-will can be applied to parsing right and wrong in human actions and thought, then the responsibility for action falls to the actor, particularly in the case of unjust actions.

Liberation Theology for the 21st Century
I caught this article from the Christian Science monitor this morning on the trepidation of Arab states over reacting to the current situation in Iran. They cited the “voice of a disenfranchised [Iranian] people” as the mechanism for the current political and social unrest and that this is the biggest [...]

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On Being a Better Muslim

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