Quote Originally Posted by Tukhachevskii View Post
The metaphors aren't too helpful I'm afraid but I would argue that there is a "generative" centre (not Chomsky's generative grammar but a similar sort of idea) or an ethico-practical episteme which demarcates the interor and exterior of the Islamic field (as discursive practice) which seesm to gell with what Muslims and various Muslim written texts would argue.
Yeah, but Java ain’t Mali and Mali ain’t Saudi Arabia.