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The Medina ‘Constitution’ and the myth of Islam’s democratic origins
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Karen Popp writes for The Catholic Thing that describing the Medina document as evidence of constitutional democracy imposes modern ideas onto seventh-century Arabian society where such concepts did not exist.
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