Pakistan and Turkey follow the same Fiqh. Sunni Hanafi. Excluding the shias, 80%+ of the population follows Islam same as Turkey. Only the foreign paid Mullas will make noise, the same who called names to Qaid e Azzam, dislike Pakistan, and spread terrorism.
Not sure if this would go great with Pakistani's.
Turkey's best religious scholars reinterpret Islam for our century
Under the country's Religious Affairs Directorate, 100 scholars worked together, inspired by Christian Biblical exegeses, to re-interpret some of Muhammad's sayings in light of today's society.
05/30/2013, 00.00
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Turkey's best religious scholars reinterpret Islam for our century
Under the country's Religious Affairs Directorate, 100 scholars worked together, inspired by Christian Biblical exegeses, to re-interpret some of Muhammad's sayings in light of today's society.
Ankara (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Scholars from a Turkish state agency, the
Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı or Religious Affairs Directorate, have edited a set of sayings attributed to Muhammad in order to interpret the tradition in a contemporary way. "We don't live in the 20th century anymore," said Mehmet Ozafsar, director of the project and Diyanet vice-president.
In Islam, some 600,000 sayings or
ḥadīth have been attributed to the Prophet, part and parcel of the Islamic tradition along with the Qur'an. They are often used by imams to explain the Scriptures to the faithful or to regulate some aspects of their daily lives.
Non-Arabic translations of the
ḥadīth, or any attempt to interpret their meaning, are a sin, and exegetic issues have often split communities between progressive and conservative camps. However, digests of the Prophet's
ḥadīth are nothing new even though reinterpreting them in light of present day society remains a delicate issue.
Religious scholars and theologians at the Diyanet, Turkey's most authoritative Islamic institution, have selected a few hundred of the about 17,000 reported quotes from Muhammad, with comments and explanations.
About a hundred authors worked on the project. Unlike many traditional Muslim scholars, these theologians work in modern university faculties and many have studied abroad to learn how Christians analyse the Bible critically. They are particularly critical of atavistic views of Islam that reject renewal.
For Mehmet Pacaci, Diyanet's general director for foreign affairs, there is too much "literalism and ignorance [. . .] in the Muslim world."
"Among intellectuals in Egypt, there is a welcome for this new interpretation which they think is very important for the Arab world to be exposed to," said Ibrahim Negm, advisor to Egypt's grand mufti.
I said the Indian subcontinent
You never heard of the neutral term South Asia?