{"id":2241,"date":"2013-06-21T01:04:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T23:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.wordpress.com\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2013-06-21T01:04:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T23:04:33","slug":"interview-with-the-iranian-muslim-scholar-seyed-amir-akrami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/21\/interview-with-the-iranian-muslim-scholar-seyed-amir-akrami\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with the Iranian Muslim scholar Seyed Amir Akrami"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Seyed<\/a>New interview of the antislavery campaign with the Iranian Muslim scholar Seyed Amir Akrami<\/a><\/b><\/address>\n
Amir shares with us his understanding of how Islam faces the challenge of slavery in its old and modern force. He says that “Muhammad was not able to eradicate or abolish the institution of slavery because that was tantamount to making such a radical revolution in his society that his time was not prepared for it. (…)\u00a0It would be anachronistic to expect the Prophet of Islam to abolish slavery in his time. Drastic social or political changes need time and the confluence of many historical factors and elements to make it possible for them to occur (…) To me the fact that the Prophet of Islam was not able to abolish slavery is not problematic at all but what is problematic is for a Muslim individual or society in our time to argue from that historical fact for the impossibility or undesirability of abolishing slavery in Muslim societies now.”<\/i><\/address>\n
Amir talks\u00a0about the challenge faced by religious minorities in Muslim\u00a0countries, also the situation of women when saying that\u00a0“injustice or discrimination against women in many societies, and especially in Muslim countries, are modern forms of slavery that we need to be abolished.” He invites us to welcome the mystical tradition of Islam so to be enriched again by its core values.<\/i><\/i><\/address>\n
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New interview of the antislavery campaign with the Iranian Muslim scholar Seyed Amir Akrami Amir shares with us his understanding of how Islam faces the challenge of slavery in its old and modern force. He says that “Muhammad was not able to eradicate or abolish the institution of slavery because that was tantamount to making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,28],"tags":[127,1314],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice-and-peace","category-publications","tag-antislavery-campaign","tag-slavery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}