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1 online resource (xviii, 411 pages) |
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In translation, modern Muslim thinkers |
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In translation, modern Muslim thinkers.
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In Translation: Modern Muslim Thinkers Ser
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| Contents |
Literature Review of Religious Freedom and Apostasy in Contemporary Sunni Islam -- Literature Review of Religious Freedom and Apostasy in Contemporary Shi'i Islam -- The Genealogy of the Book's Ideas and its Merits -- Blasphemy and Apostasy -- The Background of the Treatise -- Legal Rulings (Fatawa) on Assassination and Statement of Delight at its Implementation -- Objections to the Fatwa of Assassination / Kadivar -- Response to Doubts Surrounding Apostasy / Lankaran I. Jr. -- Treatise on Refuting the Punishment for Blasphemy and Apostasy / Kadivar -- Issuing a Ruling on the Death Penalty by a Process that Falls Outside the Sphere of a Competent Court will Engender Lawlessness and Anarchy -- Claiming the Validity of the Death Penalty for Blasphemy and Apostasy is Based on One Deficient "Isolated Report" (khabar al-wdhid) -- Refuting the Claim that Most of the Hadiths on Apostasy are "Mutawdtir in Meaning or in their General Tenor" -- Refuting the Claim of Consensus (ijmd) and the Necessity to Implement the Death Penalty for Blasphemy and Apostasy -- No One, during the Time of the Prophet, Imam Ali and the other Imams, was Sentenced to Death Solely for Apostasy -- The Absolute Cessation of the Hudud Punishments or those that Necessitate the Death Penalty and Injury, and Suspension during the Time of the Imam's Occultation -- "Isolated Reports" (khabar al-wdhid) are Non-probative (non-hujjiyya) in Matters of Critical Importance -- Issuing fatwas on Killing an Apostate or a Blasphemer Weakens and Impairs (wahn) Islam -- Alteration of the Subject (mawdu) of Apostasy and Objecting to the Perpetual Applicability of the Death Penalty for Blasphemy and Apostasy -- The Incompatibility of Executing a Blasphemer or an Apostate with Explicit Quranic Verses -- A Further Clarification of Lankaranl Jr's Position -- Rafiq Taqi in his Own Words and in the words of his Defenders -- Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech / Kadivar -- Islam: Between the Freedom of Expression and the Prohibition of Hate Speech -- Letter of Censure to the Jurists who Issued the Latest Judgement on Apostasy -- Insulting the Prophet is a Form of Hate Speech -- Request for Clarification from the Jurists who Defend "Suffocating the Religionists" -- Imam [Ali]: Political Leader or Exemplary Role Model / Ali Asghar Gharavi |
| Summary |
This book tells the story of Rāfiq Taqī, an Azerbaijani journalist and writer, who was condemned to death by an Iranian cleric for a news article in 2006 that was deemed blasphemous. Mohsen Kadivar debates the case with Muhammad Jawad Fazel, the son of Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarānī who issued the fatwa pronouncing the death penalty on Taqī |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Tağı, Rafiq, 1950-
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| SUBJECT |
Tağı, Rafiq, 1950- nli |
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Blasphemy (Islam)
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Apostasy -- Islam.
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Apostasy -- Islam
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Blasphemy (Islam)
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Blasphemy (Islam)
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Apostasy -- Islam.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Parolin, Gianluca Paolo, writer of foreword.
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Mavani, Hamid, translator.
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| ISBN |
9781474495394 |
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1474495397 |
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9781474457590 |
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1474457592 |
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