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WHAT IS ISLAM ? - SHAHAB AHMED KARTONIERT (TB)

Not merely field changing  but the boldest and best thing I have read in any field in
years.--Noah Feldman  Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law  Harvard Law School This book seeks to
offer nothing short of a new way of looking at Islam  and it succeeds admirably at so doing....
I know of no book on the question of how to approach Islam that comes close to this study in
its learning  breadth  and sophistication. It should be read not only by students and scholars
of Islam  but by all those interested in the broad questions about conceptualizing religion 
culture  and history that it raises.--Muhammad Qasim Zaman  Princeton University Strikingly
original  wide-ranging in its engagement  subtle in its interpretations  and hard-hitting in
its conclusions  this book will certainly provoke debate for a number of years. Ahmed's
assertions are provocative  his analysis is sharp  and his own solution is both strong and
creative. The book lays out a new and capacious basis for thinking about an Islamic humanism.
It reconstructs basic scholarly paradigms  ranges across all fields of the Islamic
humanities--literature  history  philosophy  art  music  et cetera--and will create potentials
for new streams of scholarship in all these fields.--Engseng Ho  Professor of Cultural
Anthropology and Professor of History  Duke University Lucid and compelling  beautifully
constructed and powerful  important and brave. What Shahab Ahmed has accomplished in this book
is to create a postcolonial ontology of Islam  one that provincializes the Euro-American
categories of analysis that up to now have been applied to Islam  both by Western scholars as
well as by scholars from the Muslim world who have appropriated these categories.--Robert
Wisnovsky  James McGill Professor of Islamic Philosophy  McGill University

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