Oliver Moody, The Times Literary Supplement: The oddness of Isaac Newton
There is a well-attested saying of the Prophet Muhammad to the effect that every century or so a “renewer” (mujaddid) will be sent by God to restore Islam to its proper form. The truth requires regular and forcible upkeep. From the jurist ash-Shafi’i and the philosopher-theologians al-Ash’ari and al-Ghazali to Ibn Taymiyyah, the grandfather of modern Salafism, the putative mujaddidun were thinkers who recognized that what has been revealed cannot simply be allowed to bed down into custom and ritual – it must be made new for each generation.
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