The purpose of this post is to give everyone a heads up so that they can be fully aware of the ‘intellectual/theological’ debates that are actively raging in Islam amongst scholars (at least those that carry much clout within the Muslim community - far from the fringe) and the ‘political/socio-economic’ conclusions that they can lead to. In other words, I will argue that, all intellectual and theological interpretations of Islam (as with every other religion including secularism) follow the same trajectory in that they all will eventually lead to particular political/socio-economic conclusions – therefore, no Muslim can avoid treating them as pre-cursors to a particular political argument. I will try to be impartial in opening up this discussion but I highly doubt it would be to everyone’s satisfaction — just keep that in mind.
