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The approach taken in the book raises important methodological issues for the study of Islam and religion in general.
the Orientalist tradition of Western scholarship on Islam 1 who have paid little or no attention to the viewpoint of the Muslim scholars and Islamic sources and have either rejected the authenticity of the Qur'an and the Hadith, or approached them as sources shaped by the collective memory of later generations of Muslims after the first century of Islam.
To this end, we will also ponder on, within the limits of this article, the question of whether the way a scholar of religion approaches the question of, say, "origins" also has relevance to the question of whether his/her conclusion is "objective" and "value-free.
Although Waines's selection of photographs partly reflects his approach of "many cultures, one faith," his emphasis on two kinds of images only appears to keep feeding on the typical stereotyping of Muslims in "so-called 'best-sellers' works of 'instant analysis' by self-styled experts" (p.
If this is Waines's stance, in terms of his own phenomenological approach to present "Islam as Muslims might understand," how will he then explain the Muslim scholars' standpoint that most of the hadiths of the Prophet, if not all, came to _ be written during Jhe life oflhe_CompanionsLThis .
It would have been better for the author to include these works in terms of adhering to his "phenomenological" approach so that he could also present Islamic origins "as Muslims recognize them, rather than as others describe them.