
A Culture of Ambiguity: An Alternative History of Islam
Marina Ali
Thomas Bauer. Trans. Hinrich Biesterfeldt and Tricia Tunstall.
Columbia UP, 2021.
“Long before the discovery of ambiguity in modern times, Islam followed the idea that ambiguity is something unavoidable, with the idea that it opens new horizons.”
—From A Culture of Ambiguity
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