love ur lack of an ic/ooc divide

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Re: log in...

[breqifuckedup]

I'm reading No god but God: The origins, evolution, and future of Islam by Reza Aslan, which is a history of Islam and its many shifting philosophies in their various cultural contexts, from its founding to very very modern times. Obviously, it's a giant topic, way bigger than this brief history can hit, but as someone with almost no background knowledge about the religion, it's awesome - super clear and easy to read, explains exactly what I need explained, and is interested primarily in showing what the world looked like where/when the Prophet founded the faith, and how it's changed, as all religions have changed.

I think my favorite thing about it, as a piece of writing, is that the author is both a scholar of religious history, and himself a believer. It's neither arguing that Islam is the One True Faith Of All Time, or even trying to posit that any one thread of philosophy in it is undeniably true. It's a book about how people contextualize their changing world over time; it's saying, hey, you don't have to be a fundamentalist to believe that God made people to seek the infinite and almighty within whatever cultural framework they've got, and it's good and important to understand that cultural framework.

If you've read Karen Armstrong's stuff on religion, it's kind of in that vein! (And Aslan is also a huge fan of hers, so.)

Re: log in...

[(Anonymous)]

holy shit you have the best seivarden username

[breqifuckedup]

THANKS YO it was this or "vendaai_agram"