https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/A-Revisionist-History-of-West-Africa https://booksandideas.net/A-Revisionist-History-of-West-Africa 2015-11-09T08:00:00Z text/html en Alden Young Islam History revisionism body slavery Koran <p>Describing how the <i>Qur'anic</i> school creates <i>taalibes</i> through the embodiment of knowledge, Ware offers a sharply revisionist history not only of West African Islamic education, but of the place of West Africans in the history of the Muslim world in general.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Koran-and-Freedom-of-Thought https://booksandideas.net/The-Koran-and-Freedom-of-Thought 2008-12-23T08:03:20Z text/html en Dominique Avon & Abdellatif Idrissi Islam Philosophy religion la suite gauche Koran <p>There was an age when people had the right to criticise the entourage of the prophet, when religious controversy was carried out with a great freedom of tone, and when Islamic scholars glorified atheism. Today, all the many debates relating to Islam present one single dilemma: the abandonment of faith or fundamentalism. In this article, a linguist and a historian relate how the two “givens” of Islam – the integrity of Mohammed's entourage and the inimitability of the Koran – gradually became established over time. To them, Islam should be reconciled with the science of texts and freedom of thought.</p>