Muhammad Asad
(1900-1992) one of the most prominent Muslim thinkers of the twentieth century.
He was born Leopold Weiss in Lwow, the son of a Jewish barrister and grandson
of an orthodox rabbi. In 1926, he converted to Islam and became Muhammad Asad.
"The great mistake (of the fundamentalists)," he once explained, "is that most
of these leaders start with the hudud, criminal punishment. This is the
end result of the sharia (Islamic Law), not the beginning. The beginning
is the rights of the people. There is no punishment in Islam which has no
corresponding right."
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Muhammad
Asad Visionary Islamic Scholar
From Leopold Weiss to Muhammad Asad
Books
The Message of
the Quran
Islam at the
Crossroads
The Road to
Mecca
The Principles
of State and Government
Sahih
Al-Bukhari : The Early Years
This Law of
Ours and Other Essays
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