That wasn't quite my point - in some ways Lyotard's book can be read as a scathing indictment of a condition from a neo-Marxist view
How faithfully the sources have been represented matters to those concerned abt defending the sources. What did Muhammad really mean?
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Far less to people concerned about how certain ideas have caught the zeitgeist and are impacting society right now.
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But when some draw upon sources to legitimise present-day actions, it matters a lot how faithfully they have represented them.
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To what, exactly? If they're not representing them faithfully, will the problems go away?
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It could change considerably the grounds for their legitimation. As when sources turn out to be forgeries/fakes.
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This is far less important than which ideas caught on, how they were developed and how they are manifested now for my purposes.
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But you are concerned to identify the key figures who have supplied the phenomenon you are describing. Don't get me wrong, I have a lot....
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...of sympathy with what you say, and I hate much to do with postmodernism. But I see the phenomenon in broader terms, coming out of a ....
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...complex range of enmeshed ideas. IMO, it is of central importance that this emerged during Reagan/Thatcher years. But there was a.....
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You will never be wrong saying cultural phenomena come from a complex range of enmeshed ideas
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I'm not a Qu'ranic scholar so couldn't say. Nor a biblical scholar. But I recognise these questions are important.
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OK, not for my purposes. Doesn't matter if Muhammad really meant OK to beat wives or not. Ppl think he did & its morally wrong.
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That's fine when you argue that to someone who shares a secular viewpoint, but it would not necessarily convince a devout person.
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Do you think there are many Muslim people who would change their mind as the result of reading that?
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Change their mind about what? What have I suggested they change their mind about?
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My point is that you are taking a secular humanist view of Islam. That may be meaningless to some devout Muslims.
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Yes. That is why it starts by saying that.
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