Qur'anic Verse

Al-Isra 17:23-24

"Your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him, and to parents, good treatment. Whether one or both of them reach old age with you, say not to them 'ugh' and do not repel them but speak to them a noble word."

Revert Way rendering (condensed), in the style of early public-domain English translations (cf. Pickthall 1930)

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Islam or Muslim Culture? Measuring the Distance Between Revelation and Practice
A historical-critical essay testing whether practices commonly defended as Islamic -- from denying women their Qur'anic inheritance shares to state corruption and the political shaping of orthodoxy -- rest on the Qur'an itself, or on later interpretation, historical tradition, absorbed local custom, and political authority defended in revelation's name.

Al-Isra 17:23-24

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Islam or Muslim Culture? Measuring the Distance Between Revelation and Practice