Qur'anic Verse

Al-'Alaq 96:1-5

"Read, in the name of your Lord who created -- created man from a clinging clot. Read, and your Lord is the most Generous -- who taught by the pen -- taught man that which he knew not."

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-'Alaq 96:1-5

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