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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 214–219.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Taymiya R. Zaman Abstract This review article examines Shahab Ahmed's What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic in light of the book's challenge to the notion that the sharia consists of Islam's orthodox core, and Muslim literary, artistic, and philosophical truths constitute a periphery...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 203–208.
Published: 01 May 2020
...A. Azfar Moin Abstract Why did Shahab Ahmed treat Islam as a puzzle to solve in his book What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic? Moin examines this question in light of the historical changes that gave shape to the milieu that Ahmed refers to as the Bengal-to-Balkans complex. Copyright ©...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 211–214.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Winnifred Fallers Sullivan Abstract This review of Shahab Ahmed's What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic explores the value of Ahmed's theory of religion through an analysis of some objects presented in Heavenly Bodies , a 2018 exhibit of Catholic fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 208–210.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Yahya Sseremba Abstract Shahab Ahmed shows that the magnitude of contradiction in Islam is far greater than modern analysts realize. Yet there is, he says, something in this contradiction that makes it coherent—something for which whoever seeks to understand Islam in its multifaceted entirety...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 195–198.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins Abstract This review looks at how Shahab Ahmed engages with history, political elitism, secularism, and anthropology in his book What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Islam political theology culture...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Marwa Elshakry Abstract The seven reviews invited here by the editorial board engage with the question posed by the very title of Shahab Ahmed's book What Is Islam? Collectively, they consider how history can both illuminate and at times obscure our understanding of both the question...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 198–203.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Murad Idris Abstract This essay analyzes the role of politics and power in Shahab Ahmed's What Is Islam? It is framed around three questions: (1) What kind of question is “What is Islam?”—or rather, for whom is this a question, and from which spaces and out of which times does it arise? (2) Who...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 219–222.
Published: 01 May 2020
...? These questions define the method that structures the essay's argument. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 orientalism Islam Shahab Ahmed anthropology of Islam Islamic metaphysics Islamic philosophy French imperialism Concluding What Is Islam? , Shahab Ahmed defines Islam...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 2020
... enemies. Finally, our book forum, Kitabkhana , considers the late Shahab Ahmed's What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic , bringing together seven scholars of diverse backgrounds to meditate on the interrelationship between religion, politics, and power. Responding to Ahmed's call to answer...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 237–243.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., “Hanafi.” O'Sullivan also questions the idea that Aman Allah's code was a “codification,” and rather interprets the history as one of compilation. Seeing the “broach church of the Hanafi school,” as O'Sullivan terms it, points readers to Shahab Ahmed's What Is Islam? , as well as a recent kitabkhana...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 447–459.
Published: 01 December 2024
....” 17 If Iqbal's intention was to warn readers off poisonous intoxicants in favor of a new literary engagement that moved away from a model of Sufi poetry that valorized ambiguity, as Shahab Ahmed has argued with regard to Hafiz in particular, 18 we would hardly expect him to order up another round...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 249–253.
Published: 01 August 2021
....” 5. Ahmed, What Is Islam? References Ahmed Faiz . Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 . Ahmed Shahab . What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic . Princeton, NJ...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 262–279.
Published: 01 August 2017
.... References Al-‘Abbasi, al-Mahdi Muhammad . Al-Fatawa al-Mahdiyya fi al-Waqa'i’ al-Misriyya (The Legal Decrees of al-Mahdi Concerning the Conditions in Egypt) . Vol 1 . Cairo : al-Matba'a al-Azhariyya , 1301 [ 1303 ]. Ahmed Shahab . What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 491–507.
Published: 01 December 2018
... Islamic thought Islamic modernism Islamic reform Salafiyya global, transnational, and international histories al-Manar References Abugideiri Hibba . Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt . Surrey, UK : Ashgate , 2010 . Ahmed Shahab . What Is Islam...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 524–539.
Published: 01 December 2018
... . “ Literacy, Power, and Agency: Love Letters and Development in Nepal .” Language and Education 18 , no. 4 ( 2004 ): 305 – 16 . Ahmed Shahab . What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2015 . Ali Khalid . “ Precursors...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 378–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
... , 1992 . Ahmed Faiz . Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 . Ahmed Shahab . What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2015...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 551–564.
Published: 01 December 2024
... , 2001 . Ahmed Shahab . What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic . Illust. ed. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2015 . Ahmed Syed Mansur , ed. Abul Hashim: Tar Jiban O Shomoy ( His Life and Time ). Dhaka : Jatiya Shahitya Prokash , 2008 . Ali Shahed...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 163–175.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2012 . Ahmed Shahab . What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2015 . Alpers Edward . “ Towards the History of the Expansion of Islam...
