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‘These are but a few examples of the many far-reaching changes that have been effected in the Islāmic family law. But the whole process of legal reform as it has so far developed still involves great problems of principle and practice. A hard core of traditionalist opinion still rejects the validity of the process of reinterpretation of the basic texts of divine revelation. The traditionalists argue that texts are merely being manipulated to yield the meaning that serves the preconceived purposes of the reformers, and that therefore, contrary to fundamental Islāmic theology, it is social desirability and not the will of Allāh that is the ultimate determinant of the law.’

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An interestingly exact parallel with to the arguments of contemporary Christian evangelicists [sic] against the ‘liberal’ and academic critical approach to the Bible.

*– ibid. [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 35-36

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