This volume is part of the Makers of the Muslim World series and provides a detailed study of a pivotal, yet often marginalized, figure in Islamic history.
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Perhaps Bashir's most ambitious and innovative project to date, this book is a "groundbreaking, born-digital" interactive, open-access monograph developed with the MIT Press. In it, Bashir invites readers to fundamentally reimagine Islam itself. He moves beyond conventional theological, nativist, and orientalist approaches, decentering Islam from a geographical identification with the Middle East, from an articulation through men's authority alone, and from the assumption that premodern expressions are more authentic than modern ones. This volume is part of the Makers of