The Yoruba Ifa Corpus contains elements compatible with metaphysics

Evidence

It followed from this that Islam, as defined by its classical texts, was the key lens through which Muslim-majority societies could be understood. If women were oppressed it was because of the teachings of the Koran; if Muslims supposedly lacked an entrepreneurial spirit it was due to “Islamic tradition”; if modernization was rejected, again the Koran was to blame. In short, a whole host of characteristics associated with the West but allegedly absent from the “Muslim world” could be explained by recourse to religious texts and the mentalities they supposedly created. In this book, the term “Muslim world” has been put in quotation marks precisely to challenge the notion that Islam is the single most important factor in defining the people who live in the Middle East, North Africa, and elsewhere, or that there is a single undifferentiated entity called the “Muslim world.” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 123 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Weber’s elective-affinity method relocated ideology analysis from content to structural homology; Western ontology and African vitalogy can engage in reciprocal dialogue; Attributing every social characteristic to religious texts erases contextual factors — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 123 (+1 more)

Related

• Philological analysis of key texts established Muslims as static subspecies (similarity 0.85)
• Textual Islam became the catch-all explanation for every attributed lack in Muslim societies (similarity 0.81)
• Attributing every social characteristic to religious texts erases contextual factors (similarity 0.81)
• A religion’s violence depends on context, not inherent character (similarity 0.79)
• Textual Orientalism blames the Quran for every perceived Middle Eastern failing (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Western ontology and African vitalogy can engage in reciprocal dialogue #expands (0.60)
• Attributing every social characteristic to religious texts erases contextual factors #complicates (0.55) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 123
• Medieval Arabic maps of Africa mixed myth with empirical knowledge #expands (0.50)