Fasting and Power
On fasting as a source of strength, in the individual and in the community.
Fasting in Islam is more than abstention, and Hosein reads it as a source of strength: over the appetites, over fear, and over the pressures a community faces when it is weak. He sets out the Qur’anic and prophetic basis, distinguishes the obligatory fast from the voluntary, and argues that a practice widely reduced to ritual is in fact a discipline with political consequences.
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