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“I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about the language used in relation to the two.”

Quote by Talal Asad

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Talal Asad is a renowned anthropologist born in 1933. His research focuses on culture, religion, and issues of national identity, offering profound insights into social and cultural changes in the context of postcolonialism and globalization. more

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“I think we need to think about Islamic tradition as a way of asking questions that cut across (and transgress) the assumptions of a purely secular world in which we already know how things stand for individual subjects as well as for societies.”

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“Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man can choose his own ancestors. Someone lacking a tradition who would like to have one is like a man unhappily in love.”

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