Qur'anic Verse

An-Nisa 4:36

"Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near neighbour, the neighbour farther away, the companion at your side, the traveller, and those whom your right hands possess."

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.

An-Nisa 4:36

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