
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
You may also be interested in...
Work Reveals Common Ground Across Massive Desert
The Sahara wasn’t always a desert. Around 9000 BCE it was a bucolic expanse where animals and lush vegetation thrived.In War and Peace, Book Explores How Rome and Persia Remained Frenemies
Book Review: In his latest scholarly work, Roman historian Adrian Goldsworthy reduces Persian and Roman longevity to simply an ever-evolving coexistence.