One of Indonesian newspaper, Republika, wrote that the Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals (ICMI) assessed the case involving the former governor of Jakarta was a blasphemy of the Quran (Republika, October 20th 2016). The writer of the news story interpreted what ICMI said during the ...
fasting before the Feast of Bēma (“judge’s seat”)—a festival commemorating the death of Mani, a 3rd-century-ad Iranian prophet who founded the syncretistic Manichaean religion—probably became the prototype of the Muslim fast month of Ramaḍān after Islamic invasions of the 7th century...