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The co-eternal Koran is not in the Koran.  Medieval scholars debated this a lot and many thought it was a document that could be adapted to the time and place.  There is no reason why this debate could not be opened again--not sure why some caliph closing the door of ijtihad (ability to make your own interpretations of Islam to adapt to the times) in the 12th century is a barrier to this, but a lot of Muslims think this is the case.  Who was he--God?  Surely not.

This is an essential problem to the relevance of Islam today and its ability to counter groups like ISIS that revive barbaric practices saying they are Koranically sanctioned.

Clearly, there is a lack of fortitude in educated, intelligent people to question publicly something that is presumed to have been a closed subject for over 800 years.[/quote]

With that in mind, I pleased to introduce you to Dr. Khalid Mohammad, someone who I enjoy reading, and with whose approach I sympathize.

And I'm not even Muslim.

http://forpeoplewhothink.org/[/quote]

PP here.  For the record I'm not Muslim either.  But I studied a fair amount about Arabia at the time of Islam as well as early and medieval Islam, in college.  I kind of struggle with recalling all the stuff because it was a pretty long time ago and don't think I should have to do research to post on DCUM.

In any event, I made my mind up then that if I were a Muslim, I'd be a Mutazilite.  This was the group that was on the losing end of the co-eternal argument.   I am not fond of religious fundamentalism and slavish adherence to every word of ancient texts.  (Very interesting for scholarship purposes but for real life it is the big picture of religion that matters.)

As a friend said, "So if you were a Muslim, you'd be a  heretic?" [/quote]

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