"Islam: Forwardization vs. Modernization
The political party of conservative Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sponsored a three year project to systematically review 162,000 hadith reports and narrow them down to 10,000 with the goal of 'separating original Islam from the accretions of 14 centuries' (story). The hadith is commonly known to be the collection of sayings from the prophet Mohammed which, for centuries, have supplemented and informed the Muslim's reading of the Quran. The news of this project is no new news at all. Months ago, BBC reported on the same announcement, which I followed up with a piece, asking if this move by the Turkish government is equatable with Europe's Protestant Reformation (post)."
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