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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

WHITNEY S. BODMAN | I appreciate the effort involved in Rachel Friedman’s review of my new book, but I would like to elaborate on reader-response theory as a justifiable method in the study of the Qur’an...

RACHEL FRIEDMAN | Since the time of its appearance in seventh-century Arabia, the Qur’an has been the subject of rich and diverse commentaries, a testament to its power as experienced by Muslim and non-Muslim audiences...