[Aquinasfan]

Interesting stuff here. Where can rationality enter Islam? The universities?

[JasonC]

That is one obvious point, for a start. Eventually you reach everybody through what is taught in mosques. Before that, presumably through what is taught in the madrasas. Before that, at universities. To get that started, the sort of people who can master the arguments and deploy them persuasively at such universities, need to hash it out.

The old adage has it that disorders in the world follow disorders in the heads of the dons by one hundred years. I think it has been a somewhat faster process in recent times, but still something about like that. It took 67 years from the time Mises published "Socialism", which came right after the Russian revolution, until the Berlin wall fell. Rahman published "Islam and Modernity" in 1982, right after the Iranian revolution.