November 14, 2024
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Comments for: Fundamentalist footnotes

Finding accurate words for Islam comes hard to Western academics. Less than half a century ago, the great English scholar H.A.R. Gibb still called this faith and its culture “Mohammedanism.” More recently “Muslim fundamentalism” has tripped glibly off expert tongues. Both are misnomers. “Moham-medanism” was… Read More

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