
Imam Tom discusses The Impossible State by Prof Wael Hallaq (part 4)
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The Danger of Going Off Track in the Islamic World
The HCM assumes that past ages of history were constrained by the same natural laws as the present age. This is a built-in assumption, according to one of the world's leading experts of the historical method. If you're astute enough to realize the philosophical underpinnings of your paradigm, okay, then you should also interrogate the separation between fact and value that is at the base of them.
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