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[email protected] a book or a movie or a poem comes precisely at the moment that one needs it. As any reader knows, this is a moment of profound communion, a rare moment in which we can feel less alone in our world and more together in our thoughts. This is the feeling that filled me as I read Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? This is the book that I have been looking for. I wanted to thank the author for having finally brought such a book into the world, but he had just died. As I read it, I wanted to engage him in debate, ask him questions, think and rethink the issues he raises, but he is gone, and I instead turn to...