What is Islam? Forum – An Introduction
Edited by Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst and Kristian Petersen Coherence and Contradiction: What is Islam? Forum The late Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam?: the
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A Christian-Muslim Mosaic of Accommodation and Partition – By David Bertaina
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Problems of Poverty and the Recently Impoverished – By John Mandsager
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In Defense of Hope – by Kelly J. Baker
Kelly J. Baker reflects on Rebecca Solnit’s refusal to let despair win. 2016 has been a hard year. Beloved celebrities, like David Bowie,
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There Is No End – by Ana Schwartz
Ana Schwartz responds to Ed Simon’s Apocalypse is the Mother of Beauty Wallace Stevens grants us that “we die for good.” He and
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