In our modern world, what constitutes contemporary Islam?
Liberal Islam: everything revolves around the Koran. In the search for a liberal interpretation, peculiar constructs occasionally emerge. By Alexander Flores
In the highly charged debate about Islam and its significance for today s world, two positions stand out sharply: the fundamentally Islam-critical one, which considers Muslims incapable of adopting a human-rights acceptable stance because of their religious affiliation, and a rigidly Islamic one, which expects all salvation from the enforcement of immutable Islamic principles. For all their differences, both positions have something in common: the idea that Islamic ideology, crystallised in the Koran, totally or almost totally dominates the practice of Muslims.