{"id":455,"date":"2004-09-12T22:45:29","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T03:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/09\/12\/ijtihad\/"},"modified":"2004-09-12T22:45:29","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T03:45:29","slug":"ijtihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/09\/12\/ijtihad\/","title":{"rendered":"Ijtihad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a417'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n <em><br \/>\n Another science known as ijtihad (or reasoning and interpretation) was developed by Muslim scholars in order to understand and apply the message of the Qur&#8217;an to varying societal needs and conditions.<br \/>\n <\/em>\n <\/p>\n<p>\n I hope that something like ijtihad can be cultivated to slowly change<br \/>\n sentiments in the Middle East.  But these type of things take time and<br \/>\n the ability to have these voices freely heard without any fear of retaliation.<br \/>\n Are those conditions even there?  Without them, these sentiments will find<br \/>\n no root to grow and will just be existing in a void.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usip.org\/pubs\/specialreports\/sr125.html\">Read it yourself<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another science known as ijtihad (or reasoning and interpretation) was developed by Muslim scholars in order to understand and apply the message of the Qur&#8217;an to varying societal needs and conditions. I hope that something like ijtihad can be cultivated to slowly change sentiments in the Middle East. But these type of things take time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}