Philosophical Sufism in Translation
Cyrus Ali Zargar As someone who studies classical Sufism, I want to share the wonder that strikes me when encountering primary sources. Yet
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Islam
The Ambiguities of Being Muslim and Modern
Rushain Abbasi So much and yet so little is conveyed by the word “modernity.” On the one hand, it possesses the sovereign-like capacity
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Formative Years of Islamic History
Isabel Toral-Niehoff on Tobias Andersson The emergence of Arabic history-writing in early Islam is a complex phenomenon. On the one hand, it drew
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Sovereignty and Secularism in Modern Islam: A Response
SherAli Tareen Responds to Forum Contributors I want to begin by registering my profound gratitude to Ali Altaf Mian for his generous time
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Doctrinal Debates in Islam: Beyond Binaries
Megan Eaton Robb on SherAli Tareen SherAli Tareen’s book is a thrilling panoramic view of Barelwi-Deoband debates that animated the 19th-century reformist milieu
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Political Theologies: Islam and the Nation-State
Mashal Saif on SherAli Tareen SherAli Tareen’s scintillating book illuminates the intellectual universe of colonial-era South Asian traditional Muslim scholars (‘ulama’). It does
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A/Synchronicity: Text and Context in Tareen’s Defending Muhammad in Modernity
Noah Salomon on SherAli Tareen I spent the first year-and-a-half of the Covid-19 pandemic in Beirut on an extended sabbatical. As a way of
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Beyond Mosque and Madrasa: Everyday Theology in Islam
Kecia Ali on SherAli Tareen As a new bride and a newish Muslim in the mid-1990s, I spent a lot of time being
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Traditions and Tensions: Islam in Modern South Asia
Ali Altaf Mian on SherAli Tareen SherAli Tareen’s Defending Muḥammad in Modernity models an extended set of close readings of nineteenth- and early
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A Forum on SherAli Tareen’s Defending Muhammad in Modernity
University of Notre Dame Press This forum on SherAli Tareen’s landmark study, Defending Muhammad in Modernity, illuminates several key terms in the study
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