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

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

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

RUTH GAVISON | There is something perplexing, intriguing and deeply troubling in the debate over Israel’s character and whether it should be enshrined in a constitutional enactment.

ZE'EV B. BEGIN | This time, instead of starting with Genesis, let’s start with Exodus. In ancient times, when a person hired a laborer, he took a pledge from him to guarantee his good behavior.

SIMON RABINOVITCH | Between December 2014 and May 2015 Marginalia ran the Defining Israel forum with documents and essays on Israel’s parliamentary struggle over whether to pass a law defining Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people, and if so, what that would mean.

YOUSEF T. JABAREEN | Since the establishment of the state of Israel, relations between Arab citizens and the Jewish majority — including state authorities — have been fraught with tensions related to the divergent national identities of the two groups.

MOSHE KOPPEL | In 2004 the Knesset’s Committee on Constitution and Law, under the chairmanship of Michael Eitan, held hearings regarding the drafting of a constitution for Israel.

YORAM HAZONY | Israel’s political constitution has been in a condition of crisis since the 1990s — a crisis that the various proposed versions of the Jewish nation-state law are intended to resolve.

YEHUDAH MIRSKY | An odd and simple-minded question, perhaps, given the ubiquity and centrality of nation states in our world, but still worth asking, especially when first principles are on the table.

NIR KEDAR | The controversy over the proposed Basic Law: Israel is the Nation-State of the Jewish People revolves mainly around its content.

NAHUM KARLINSKY | Spring in Israel is beautiful but brief.