Why is it you do not speak about this book in Islam “Reliance of the Traveller: Islamic Sacred Law”
࿗Infidel࿘says
In case Robert doesn’t respond, this is my best guess here
This is a book published by al-Azhar university in Cairo, and applies mainly to the Shafi’i school of sunni jurisprudence. There was one occasion I remember Robert using it, and he mentioned that while the rule that he highlighted – not publicizing truths about Muhammad that would lower his reputation among infidels – was from this book that applied only to Shafi’is, there were other writings in the other schools – Hanafi, Hanbali and Maliki – that applied to those schools as well
So if one was talking about a country that one knew uses Shafi’i jurisprudence – Yemen, Somalia, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Sudan and partly Egypt (which follows both Hanafi and Shafi’i), then one could cite this book. But if one uses it for countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, “Palestine”, Syria, Turkey, then it won’t apply, since those follow Hanafi jurisprudence. Rest of North Africa follows Maliki, and Saudi Arabia and Qatar follow Hanbali
࿗Infidel࿘says
Just watched it. It was interesting to hear the discussion on 5:32 – the favorite verse of muslim-apologists in the West – both muslim & non-muslim, the very next verse and their context. In particular, for 5:33, I found the “waging war on allah” a much clearer statement than “mischief in the land” – like if people are trolling other people
I also liked the analysis of Doom came up several times – and their categories – terrible doom, painful doom, awful doom! Reminds me of my college days, when we got to play that DOS game “Doom” in our lab computers (I found that game pretty formidable, so always used the immortal cheat codes 😈) Since it was the early 90s, allah never occurred to me
ROBERT GILMANsays
I clicked on something that says “Exploring the Quran” thinking I might find something intelligent, and it’s just garbage. Just this horrible singing.
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Troybeam says
Mr. Spencer,
Why is it you do not speak about this book in Islam “Reliance of the Traveller: Islamic Sacred Law”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
In case Robert doesn’t respond, this is my best guess here
This is a book published by al-Azhar university in Cairo, and applies mainly to the Shafi’i school of sunni jurisprudence. There was one occasion I remember Robert using it, and he mentioned that while the rule that he highlighted – not publicizing truths about Muhammad that would lower his reputation among infidels – was from this book that applied only to Shafi’is, there were other writings in the other schools – Hanafi, Hanbali and Maliki – that applied to those schools as well
So if one was talking about a country that one knew uses Shafi’i jurisprudence – Yemen, Somalia, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Sudan and partly Egypt (which follows both Hanafi and Shafi’i), then one could cite this book. But if one uses it for countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, “Palestine”, Syria, Turkey, then it won’t apply, since those follow Hanafi jurisprudence. Rest of North Africa follows Maliki, and Saudi Arabia and Qatar follow Hanbali
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Just watched it. It was interesting to hear the discussion on 5:32 – the favorite verse of muslim-apologists in the West – both muslim & non-muslim, the very next verse and their context. In particular, for 5:33, I found the “waging war on allah” a much clearer statement than “mischief in the land” – like if people are trolling other people
I also liked the analysis of Doom came up several times – and their categories – terrible doom, painful doom, awful doom! Reminds me of my college days, when we got to play that DOS game “Doom” in our lab computers (I found that game pretty formidable, so always used the immortal cheat codes 😈) Since it was the early 90s, allah never occurred to me
ROBERT GILMAN says
I clicked on something that says “Exploring the Quran” thinking I might find something intelligent, and it’s just garbage. Just this horrible singing.