Fire and Knowledge

BBC News reports that Turkey “is preparing to publish…. a fundamental revision of the Hadith, the second most sacred text in Islam after the Koran…. It says that a significant number of the sayings were never uttered by Muhammad, and even some that were need now to be reinterpreted.”

They are also rejecting “a long-established rule of Muslim scholars that later (and often more conservative) texts override earlier ones.”

I don’t imagine Muslim fundamentalists will appreciate this very much, but it seems rather encouraging to me.