FedEx founder Fred Smith (a middling student at Yale by some accounts) is known to be a huge fan of the classical economic scholars, but how awful for all of us if he'd wasted his talent on teaching classical theory over founding a company that employs thousands and makes all of our lives much easier.

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FedEx ( FDX - news - people ) founder Fred Smith (a middling student at Yale by some accounts) is known to be a huge fan of the classical economic scholars, but how awful for all of us if he'd wasted his talent on teaching classical theory over founding a company that employs thousands and makes all of our lives much easier.

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In 1912, the government abolished the teaching of the classics and began promoting a written form of the vernacular, rather than classical written Chinese, which was decipherable only to scholars.

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The inclusiveness, universality, and indivisibility of Shariah are not just evidenced by the published work of the classical and contemporary Shariah authorities on the one hand and the secular academic scholars who treat Shariah and its jurisprudence as a discipline for study on the other.

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