Islamic Intellectual Leadership at a Crossroads
…. A cursory look across 1400 years of Muslim history will bear this out. Africa is wide and vast, but the places where Islam took root (at least initially) are the places where education, intellectualism, moral imagination, and spiritual creativity took root first. These established a wide-ranging change that affected all aspects of the society. We still talk romantically about al-Andalusia. But what impresses me most was not the tumultuous politi…
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