Revelation and Authority: A Forum
Paul Mendes-Flohr (University of Chicago) John C. Cavadini (University of Notre Dame) Jon D. Levenson (Harvard University) Benjamin Sommer (The Jewish Theological Seminary)
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Forums
The Protestant Reformation: A Forum
Introduction – Bruce Gordon (Yale University) Gordon Campbell (Leicester) Brian Cummings (York) David Lyle Jeffrey (Baylor) Lars Fischer (UCL) Bruce Gordon (Yale) Phil Gorski
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Cynthia Baker’s Jew: A Forum
Introduction by Shaul Magid and Annette Yoshiko Reed Yeah Jew! by Daniel Boyarin Jew and the Making of the Christian Gaze by Annette Yoshiko Reed Thinking
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The Interpretative Pivot: Hermeneutics and the Contemporary Decline of Islamic Pluralism – by Peter Gottschalk
The sixth essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? In the penultimate chapter – “Applications and Implications: Coherent Contradiction, Exploration,
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Reconceptualization, Pre-Text, and Con-text – by Sajjad Rizvi
The fifth essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? We use categories and concepts in order to communicate something to
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What is Islam? A Celebration and Defense of Contradiction Perplexity and Paradox – by Anna Bigelow
The fourth essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? If Shahab Ahmed were still with us to defend the complex
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The Problem with Being Islamic: Definitional and Theoretical Limits and Legacies – by Zareena Grewal
The third essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? Last semester I began my graduate seminar, “Interrogating the ‘Crisis’ of
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The Priority of the Political: Politics Determines the Possibilities of Islam – by Mohammad H. Fadel
The second essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? Chapter 2 of “What is Islam?” is primarily a deconstructive project
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What is Islam? Forum – An Introduction
Edited by Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst and Kristian Petersen Coherence and Contradiction: What is Islam? Forum The late Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam?: the
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Three More Questions about What is Islam? – by Tehseen Thaver
In many ways this book is an act of un-inheritance The first chapter of Shahab Ahmed’s magnum opus What is Islam? titled “Six
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