Islam proved compatible with every major polity and economic form in history.
Evidence
Islam as a living, dynamic, evolving faith responding to widely differing environments and rapidly shifting historical circumstances inconvertibly proved itself highly compatible with all the major types of polities and varied forms of social and economic organisation (sic) that human history produced and threw up in the lives of peoples and societies … In light of these palpable historical facts, adaptations and precedents it should be clear that Islam has had to be very plastic, adaptable, malleable and infinitely reinterpretable and revisable to survive and flourish under such contradictory conditions and widely varying circumstances. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 277
Categorization
- XREF: Testable counter-evidence to the reader’s content-agnosticism speculation: Islam adapted across Soviet and Gulf-type societies alike, supporting the thesis that any standing apparatus can instrumentalize it. — connects to: Islam adapted flexibly to diverse societies, like Christianity did.; Pre-modern Islamic law stood above all political will and could not be suspended; Islam adapted to survive across widely varying political and economic systems (+7 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Islam adapted flexibly to diverse societies, like Christianity did.; Pre-modern Islamic law stood above all political will and could not be suspended; Islam adapted to survive across widely varying political and economic systems (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Islam adapted to survive across widely varying political and economic systems
#corroborates(0.95) - Islam’s historical survival required it to be endlessly adaptable and reinterpretable
#corroborates(0.95) - Islam adapted flexibly to diverse societies, like Christianity did.
#corroborates(0.90) - Islam’s survival required endless adaptation to diverse polities and economies
#corroborates(0.90) - Pre-modern Islamic law stood above all political will and could not be suspended
#qualifies(0.80) - Siyad framed socialism as fully compatible with and expressive of Islam
#exemplifies(0.80) - Siyad insisted Scientific Socialism was compatible with, even expressive of, Islam
#exemplifies(0.80) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 533 - Islamic civilization sustained vibrant internal doctrinal contestation and humanism.
#expands(0.75) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 477 - Islam has practiced de facto separation of religion and politics since the eighth century
#exemplifies(0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 284 - Egyptian law’s success proves its compatibility with sharia
#exemplifies(0.72)