Solidarity for Transparency
A Prayer for Anticorruption
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
How do you suppose a group of ulemas, or religious leaders, spent their days among 7,000 books of Qu'ranic verses? In November 2002, these ulemas of Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, went through verse after verse, pouring through pages of the yellow books.
They were studying biographies of their predecessors, searching for some relevance to the present condition. "We want to draw up a guidebook. A kitab fikih (manual of Islamic law) focused on antigra
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