An Androcentric Discipline? The Gender Troubles of Qur’anic Exegesis – by Ali Altaf Mian
Ali Altaf Mian on Karen Bauer’s Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’an Gender is a widely debated topic in contemporary Islam. Many Muslims, and
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Islam
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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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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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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Three More Questions about What is Islam? – by Tehseen Thaver
In many ways this book is an act of un-inheritance The first chapter of Shahab Ahmed’s magnum opus What is Islam? titled “Six
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A Christian-Muslim Mosaic of Accommodation and Partition – By David Bertaina
David Bertaina on on Michael Penn’s Envisioning Islam At the beginning of his reign (705-715), the caliph al-Walid inaugurated the creation of a
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