Abdullah Saeed and Hassan Saeed's Freedom of Religion, Apostasy and Islam, published by Ashgate in 2004, is a scholarly study examining the classical Islamic legal rulings on apostasy alongside modern arguments, made by Muslim scholars themselves, that those rulings addressed political defection from the early Muslim community rather than private loss of faith. Its authority rests on standard academic press peer review and the authors' grounding in Islamic legal sources. Its own argument, that the modern reformist reading is a minority position within contemporary Islamic legal scholarship rather than the mainstream one, should be read as the book's own honest framing of a genuinely contested question rather than a settled consensus.
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Abdullah Saeed and Hassan Saeed's Freedom of Religion, Apostasy and Islam, published by Ashgate in 2004, the top tier reflecting standard academic press peer review and the authors' own grounding in Islamic legal sources, examining classical apostasy rulings alongside modern reformist arguments made by Muslim scholars themselves, notwithstanding that the book's own honest framing names the reformist reading as a minority position within contemporary Islamic legal scholarship rather than a settled consensus. NotesOn the classical apostasy rulings and the modern arguments that they addressed political defection rather than private conviction.
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AuthorAbdullah Saeed and Hassan Saeed
PublisherAshgate
Publication Year2004
Source Typeacademic monograph
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Doctrines, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Schools of Religious Law, 2 claims: 1 connected, 1 general references.
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