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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Defending Muhammad in Modernity: Forum Introduction
Ali Altaf Mian This forum on SherAli Tareen’s landmark study, Defending Muhammad in Modernity, illuminates several key terms in the study of religion
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Islam and the Enlightenment
Irfan Ahmad on Islam today If Immanuel Kant was the “Papa Enlightenment Subject,” a phrase used by anthropologist William Mazzarella, literary critic Edward
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Al-Ḥarīrī’s Fifty Tales: The Tongues of God and Man
Bruce Fudge on al-Ḥarīrī translated by Michael Cooperson Impostures is ostensibly the translation of a twelfth-century Arabic text entitled “The Maqāmas.” Nobody knows
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People of The Books: Qur’an and The Bible
Stephen Burge on Gabriel Reynolds Gabriel Reynolds’ The Qur’an and the Bible: Text and Commentary, is a handsomely produced volume, and an intriguing
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