While still in prison, in 2004 leading thinkers in the organization produced a set of concise, accessible booklets entitled the ‘Series for Correcting Understandings,’ which condemned violent extremism on the basis of sound interpretation of scripture. The reformed Jama‘a members warned that a main cause of religious extremism was the literal reading of the Qur’an and Hadiths, without qualified ulama as guides or an understanding of the overarching principles of the Shariah.
