A Forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What Is Islam?

This forum is on Shahab Ahmed's What is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic.

Princeton University Press, 2016

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Contributors

Three More Questions about What is Islam?, Tehseen Thaver, Assistant Professor of Religion/Islam at Princeton University

The Priority of the Political: Politics Determines the Possibilities of Islam, Mohammad H. Fadel,

Professor and Toronto Research Chair for the Law and Economics of Islamic Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

What is Islam? A Celebration and Defense of Contradiction Perplexity and Paradox, Anna Bigelow,

Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University

Reconceptualization, Pre-Text, and Con-text, Sajjad Rizvi,

Professor of Islamic Intellectual History and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter

The Interpretative Pivot: Hermeneutics and the Contemporary Decline of Islamic Pluralism, Peter Gottschalk,

Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University