Muhammad of the Medina period ?

Submitted by marlan (Belgium), May 22, 2013 at 18:22

If you consider that "Islamism represents the transformation of Islamic faith into a political ideology", your allegation that Muhammad of the Medina period was "a plain Muslim, not an Islamist", sounds quite curiously. Actually, the "Islamic faith" has never been anything but a "political" ideology, even if in the society submitted to God Alone there is no "polis" reserved for a human government.

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