کتاب: رُشدشمارہ 02 - صفحہ 119
God’s Will in history by spreading the faith and fighting for it.”[1]
Distracted Interpretation of Islamic Teachings
The style of Esposito is different from other orientalists in only a way that others criticize Islamic teachings and norms in a direct way but Esposito repeates the same allegations in a very “neutral”, and descriptive mode; to understand this aspect consider the following examples:
a. “ He[2] is entitled to exercise his marital authority by restraining his wife's movements and preventing her from showing herself in public.” [3]
b. “ Another barrier to marriage in the category of family relationship involved unlawful conjunction. A Muslim must not be married at the same time to women related by consanguinity, affinity, or fosterage, as for example, two sisters or an aunt and her niece.”[4]
c. “A somewhat less important doctrine regarding marriage is kafaah” [5]
8. Selection of the Most Complicated Debates of Fiqh Al-Islami
Another surprising aspect is the selection of the most complicated juristic debates by the author which are not well known by western people so an unaware reader would have faith in what Espoito describes, and what he conveyed to the reader is the sense of superior, imposing and extreme authorative impression of Muslim man:
“Parentage is established in Islam by birth during a regular or irregular, but not a void marriage, or by the father's acknowledgement. Thus, the child's rights to legitimacy are at times dependent upon the good will of his father. ... Legitimacy is determined in classical Islamic law by the following rules: (1) A child who is born within six months of