The textualist case made in the Atlantic's "What ISIS Really Wants" should be paired with Atlantic's own rebuttal: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/what-muslims-really-want-isis-atlantic/386156/ ….
@tpsinnem I certainly agree that Wood makes a textualist / somewhat literalist case. That's a large part of the thesis.
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@tpsinnem As you say, I think the question hinges on where it's intellectually reasonable to deploy that.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patrickc Dagli seems to say "ISIS not literalist because there are allegorical passages which they don't take literally, ergo Wood wrong." -
@tpsinnem I think it's more subtle than that. There are non-allegorical passages ISIS does not take literally either. - 2 more replies
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