Qur'anic Verse

Al-Baqarah 2:170

"When it is said to them, 'Follow what Allah has revealed,' they say, 'Rather, we will follow that which we found our fathers doing.' Even though their fathers understood nothing, nor were they guided?"

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-Baqarah 2:170

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