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Episode 5: The Caliphate
This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama
Al Mahmoon's Inquisition
Traditionalists among the ulama, specialist scholars of religious law, were championed by caliph. Al mahmoon would claim as only permissible truth doctrines that had been a red line for the umayats. This meant more wiggle room for the caliph including his emphasis on pagan, greek learning and falsafa - islamic term for philosophy. The meaner was an attempt to insure the caliph's central role in determining religious orthodoxy.
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