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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

CLARE WILDE | Non-Muslims, including Jews and Christians, have spoken Arabic since before the revelation of the Qur’an...

GABRIEL REYNOLDS | Early Muslims took to naming their scripture the Qurʾan because of the passages therein that refer to the revelation given to Muhammad...

DANIEL MAJCHROWICZ | This is how the Indian poet Altaf Husain Hali described the first generations of Muslims in an Urdu poem from the 1870s...

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...