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What Is Islam? The Importance of Being IslamicShahab Ahmed
What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic
A wide-ranging and much-discussed essay arguing that definitions of Islam centred on law and doctrine fail to capture the poetry, philosophy, Sufism and art through which Muslims have historically lived their religion. Ahmed died shortly before its publication by Princeton University Press.
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