ABU HANIFA
Unfortunately, much modern Islamic philosophy and religion sees new knowledge and innovation of ideas as heresy per se. However, this was not at all true at the beginning of Islam. This narrow-mindedness and intolerance began to develop in 1100, hundreds of years after Mohammad. Contrast Abu Hanifa with an Islamic modern fundamentalist who claims there can be no valid new knowledge: {620307}. This jurist is more typical of most Muslim judges and legal experts, than the fundamentalists who tend to promote their believes more vigorously and get much more media coverage—including in this collection of quotations—simply because the are so violent and such a danger.
Unfortunately, much modern Islamic philosophy and religion sees new knowledge and innovation of ideas as heresy. However, this was not at all true at the beginning of Islam. This narrow-mindedness and intolerance began to develop in 1100, hundreds of hears after Mohammad. Contrast Abu Hanifa with an Islamic modern fundamentalist who claims there can be no valid new knowledge: {620307}.
Abu Hanifa was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, ascetic, and eponym of the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence, which remains the most widely practiced to this day. His school predominates in Central Asia, Afghanistan, Iran (until the sixteenth century), Turkey, the Balkans, Russia, Circassia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, and some parts of the Arab world.
