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Aug 25, 2016

The Interpretative Pivot: Hermeneutics and the Contemporary Decline of Islamic Pluralism

PETER GOTTSCHALK | In the penultimate chapter – “Applications and Implications: Coherent Contradiction, Exploration, Diffusion, Form

Aug 24, 2016

Reconceptualization, Pre-Text, and Con-text

SAJJAD RIZVI | We use categories and concepts in order to communicate something to our peers, about our objects of inquiry and ideas

Aug 23, 2016

What is Islam? A Celebration and Defense of Contradiction Perplexity and Paradox

ANNA BIGELOW | If Shahab Ahmed were still with us to defend the complex and sometimes overblown prose in his heartbreaking work

Aug 21, 2016

The Priority of the Political: Politics Determines the Possibilities of Islam

MOHAMMED H. FADEL | Chapter 2 of “What is Islam?” is primarily a deconstructive project in which Ahmed criticizes two common approaches

Aug 18, 2016

Three More Questions about What is Islam?

TEHSEEN THAVER | The first chapter of Shahab Ahmed’s magnum opus What is Islam? titled “Six Questions about Islam” sets the stage