Radical and subversive thought has always been integral to Islamic history
Evidence
Beginning with Ibn al-Muqaffa’ (died 760 CE), there has been scarcely a period when radical and subversive thought has not been integral to Islamic intellectual history. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 515
Categorization
- XREF: Counters the common assumption in current discourse that critique of Islam is alien to the tradition itself.
Related
- Every anti-Islamic charge already has a long indigenous Islamic intellectual history. (similarity 0.85)
- Islamic doctrine has always been internally contested and reinterpreted (similarity 0.84)
- Islamic intellectual history already contains every claim native informers recycle as new (similarity 0.82)
- Muslim intellectual critique long predates and exceeds Islamophobic polemic. (similarity 0.81)
- Islamic civilization sustained vibrant internal doctrinal contestation and humanism. (similarity 0.81)
- Islamic intellectual history is diverse, contested, and humanistic (similarity 0.81)
- Islam is integral to but not definitive of Muslim literary cultures (similarity 0.80)
- Muslims have long practiced self-criticism within their own languages under their own names (similarity 0.80)
- Arabist and Islamic studies resisted the revision that reformed other area studies (similarity 0.80)
- Islamic studies remains exempt from scholarly norms applied to other fields (similarity 0.80)
- Islamic doctrine has justified opposite political programs alike (similarity 0.80)
- An introspective self-critical turn marked a new era in Christian thought about Islam (similarity 0.80)
- Islamophobic discourse falsely insists the Quran demands literalist reading while the Bible permits critique. (similarity 0.80)
- Literature resists Islamophobic universalism by structuring feeling and imagining alternative experiences (similarity 0.80)
- Even anti-Islamophobic Muslim novels indirectly accept the frame they oppose. (similarity 0.80)