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‘Islām, essentially Arabian in nature, whatever superficial external influences may have affected it, is Arabia’s outstanding contribution to world civilisation. The Arabian ideal of religion inclined to strict adhesion to law.* Islamic law (Sharīˊah) is one of innate conservatism, and Islam itself does not readily accept change unless labelled a return to pristine purity.’

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** – ibid [– Encyclopaedia Britannica 13:872]

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