Sheik AH Abdel Razek doubts whether polygamy is an entirely good thing decreed of God.
Sheik Razek thinks the status of women under Mohammedan rule is disgraceful.
Moreover, Sheik Razek does not believe the Koran to be infallible. Even if the Koran be accepted as a code for personal conduct, it is not, says the Sheik, an adequate guide to modern statecraft. He considers that the Califate* has become corrupt, incompetent—essen tial cause of the backwardness of Islam.
Sheik Razek is a professor of religious jurisprudence in the famed Moslem University of Al Azhar,...
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