{"id":1204,"date":"2008-02-26T22:10:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T03:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2008-02-28T21:10:14","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T02:10:14","slug":"muslim-reformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"Muslim reformation?&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently in the works, a radical revision of the Hadith:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turkey is preparing to publish a document that represents a revolutionary reinterpretation of Islam &#8211; and a controversial and radical modernisation of the religion.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s powerful Department of Religious Affairs has commissioned a team of theologians at Ankara University to carry out a fundamental revision of the Hadith, the second most sacred text in Islam after the Koran.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/7264903.stm\">Link to BBC story<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow. For us religion geeks, this is <em>huge<\/em> news. It seems unlikely that U.S. news media will cover the story in any meaningful way, so now I&#8217;m trying to figure out where I can go for solid coverage of this story. Any ideas?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/009994.html\">Via<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently in the works, a radical revision of the Hadith: Turkey is preparing to publish a document that represents a revolutionary reinterpretation of Islam &#8211; and a controversial and radical modernisation of the religion. The country&#8217;s powerful Department of Religious Affairs has commissioned a team of theologians at Ankara University to carry out a fundamental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[348,349],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology","tag-hadith","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}