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How to Fix the internet and Save Knowledge: An American Tale
SAMUEL LONCAR | What defines us is not our leaders or our borders. A President does not make an epoch.
Feb 2, 2017


Science vs. Religion and Other Modern Myths
SAMUEL LONCAR | If god is dead, myth is not...
Oct 7, 2016


A Forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What Is Islam?
SHAHAB AHMED | This forum is on Shahab Ahmed's What is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic.
Aug 26, 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 26, 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 25, 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 24, 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 22, 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
Aug 19, 2016


How to Be Human in a Machine World
SAMUEL LONCAR | Humans seem to relish the prospect of their own extinction...
Dec 8, 2015


In the Footsteps of Shenoute
CAROLINE T. SCHROEDER | Every year in the month of July over ten thousand pilgrims flock to the White Monastery outside of the city of...
Oct 13, 2015


Reflections on the Nation-State Debate
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.
Oct 8, 2015
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