Moslems in the Nineteenth Century

The more restrictive approach also helps explain why there were occasional executions of apostates in some moslem countries as late as the nineteenth and even the twentieth century. It also explains why some suni scholars and organizations agreed with jomenes fatwa that roshti could be killed as an apostate without a trial or the opportunity to repent. Even to day, 13 moslem majority countries formally punish apostasy or blasphemy with the death penalty, though executions are very rare. Next episode, we're back in europe, where we'll explore the not so dark ages that the arab translation movement and its learned offspring of philosophers and scientists help illuminate. We'll meet brilliant mediaeval scholars at the