{"id":514,"date":"2026-03-13T09:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/?p=514"},"modified":"2026-03-04T10:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:03:58","slug":"on-pedagogy-and-the-mihna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/on-pedagogy-and-the-mihna\/","title":{"rendered":"On pedagogy and the mihna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em>mihna<\/em> or &#8220;inquisition&#8221; was the event that the ruling <em>khalifa<\/em> of the Muslim empire attacked scholars with the compulsed choice of either accepting the createdness of the Qur&#8217;an or rejecting it. Rejection of the doctrine meant imprisonment or worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A pedagogical note can be made that it seems irrational to impose such drastic fate to a theoretical question. It can also be interpreted as the climate of the time being academic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mihna or &#8220;inquisition&#8221; was the event that the ruling khalifa of the Muslim empire attacked scholars with the compulsed choice of either accepting the createdness of the Qur&#8217;an or rejecting it. Rejection of the doctrine meant imprisonment or worse. A pedagogical note can be made that it seems irrational to impose such drastic fate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[73,74,75],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramadan","tag-mihna","tag-pedagogy","tag-quran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}