Between Intolerance and Accomodation, Between Tolerance and Indifference
“Written during the last five to six years of al-Ghazali’s life, (Faisal al-Tafriqah) reflects the concerns and frustrations of a man deeply troubled by the debilitating effects of both theological intolerance and theological laissez-faire. While theological intolerance sapped the community’s ability to accommodate plausible theological differences, theological laissez-faire confused tolerance with indifference and exposed the community to the machinations of those whose conflation of rationalistic deism with Islam only masked their opposition to the religion of Muhammad.” — Sherman Jackson’s On the Bounds of Theological Tolerance In Islam.
