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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

ROBERT MORRISON | Islam’s compatibility with science remains a prominent topic in public discourse...

ALEXANDRE M. ROBERTS | This entire Red Sea rim is dotted with the ruins of ancient and medieval ports...

AHMED EL SHAMSY | The origins of the study of Islam in the West lie in the philological study of texts...

GEORGE ARCHER | The classical period of Islamic scholarship produced a fruitful and developed body of commentary on the Qur’an, but modern academic study...

MARCO DEMICHELIS | While outsiders often view Islam as an exclusivist religion, the fate of non-Muslims has provoked significant theological discussions...

DAVID NIRENBERG | We know that “books, too, have their fates,” but all too seldom is that fate as fortunate as this...

ADNAN SARWAR | He's here to talk about time spent under the fatwa...

PAUL L. HECK | Ibn Hazm of Cordoba, pious scholar and littérateur of eleventh-century Andalusia, may not be well known, but his ideas certainly generate controversy...

BARBARA MUJICA | An extraordinary sum of Passion-related texts and images produced in late medieval Europe put Christ’s humanity and suffering at the center of devotional life...