A bundle of twigs is not a tree : lesson sample (slide 7)


 

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The following slide shows an excerpt from Kitab al-Umm by Imam Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi‘i (d.204/820), founder of the third surviving Sunni school of law. In all, Daesh propagandists took three decontextualised quotations in their list of twenty from this book. This next excerpt is from the broader context of the 10th quotation in that list.

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