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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Shahab Ahmed
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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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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