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Welcome to Islamic Reformation 101 - Turkish Daily News Mar 01, 2008
Welcome to Islamic Reformation 101 - Turkish Daily News Mar 01, 2008
This week Turkey made international headlines not only with its military's land operation in northern Iraq or its never-ending tug of war over the headscarf.
There was also the scholarly and tedious work carried out by a group of theologians in Ankara, supported by the Diyanet (Turkey's official religious body), to revise the “hadiths” – the words and deeds of Prophet Mohammed. “Turkey in radical revision of Islamic texts,” read the BBC's headline. “Turkey strives,” the Guardian observed, “for 21st century form of Islam.” According to the Financial Times, this was “Turkey's fresh look at Prophet.”
Are these far-fetched comments, or does the revision of hadiths by Turkey's officially sanctioned Islamic experts really point to something fundamentally important? To find an answer, one first needs to probe what the hadiths really are. And to do that, one needs to go back to the roots of Islam.
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