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‘The fusion of two once separable phenomena, membership in Muhammad’s community and faith in Islam – the mundane and the spiritual – would become one of Islam’s most distinctive features. Becoming and being Muslim always involved doing more than it involved believing. On balance, Muslims have always favoured orthpraxy (correctness of practice) over orthodoxy (correctness of doctrine). Being Muslim has always meant making a commitment to a set of behavioural patterns because they reflect the right orientation to God. Where choices were later posed, they were not posed in terms of religion and politics, or church and state, but between living in the world the right or the wrong way. Just as classical Islāmicist languages developed no equivalents for the words “religion” and “politics”, modern European languages have developed no adequate terms to capture the choices as Muslims have posed them.’

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*– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 108

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