"Is Turkey’s Government Starting a Muslim Reformation?
May 22, 2008, 5:54 pm
by Daniel Pipes*
Accounts from Turkey suggest that the government is attempting a bold re-interpretation of Islam.
Its unusually named ministry of religion, the “Presidency of Religious Affairs and the Religious Charitable Foundation,” has undertaken a three-year “Hadith Project” systematically to review 162,000 hadith reports and winnow them down to some 10,000, with the goal of separating original Islam from the accretions of fourteen centuries."
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