Cynthia Baker’s Jew: A Forum
Introduction by Shaul Magid and Annette Yoshiko Reed Yeah Jew! by Daniel Boyarin Jew and the Making of the Christian Gaze by Annette Yoshiko Reed Thinking
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Letter from the Founder
Dear Readers, We want to take this moment to thank you for your support and inform you of some exciting developments at the Marginalia
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A Requiem for Leonard Cohen – by Elliot R. Wolfson
Elliot R. Wolfson says adieu to the master of erotic despair And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And
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A Forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What Is Islam?
Forum Introduction Contributors Three More Questions about What is Islam? Tehseen Thaver Assistant Professor of Religion/Islam Princeton University The Priority of the Political:
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The Interpretative Pivot: Hermeneutics and the Contemporary Decline of Islamic Pluralism – by Peter Gottschalk
The sixth essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? In the penultimate chapter – “Applications and Implications: Coherent Contradiction, Exploration,
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Charting the Atlas of the Heart: Why Humans Need a Language of Emotions
Thomas Harrison on Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” wrote Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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Reconceptualization, Pre-Text, and Con-text – by Sajjad Rizvi
The fifth essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? We use categories and concepts in order to communicate something to
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What is Islam? A Celebration and Defense of Contradiction Perplexity and Paradox – by Anna Bigelow
The fourth essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? If Shahab Ahmed were still with us to defend the complex
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The Problem with Being Islamic: Definitional and Theoretical Limits and Legacies – by Zareena Grewal
The third essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? Last semester I began my graduate seminar, “Interrogating the ‘Crisis’ of
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The Priority of the Political: Politics Determines the Possibilities of Islam – by Mohammad H. Fadel
The second essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? Chapter 2 of “What is Islam?” is primarily a deconstructive project
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