Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Translators’ Note 8
6. 1. Cultural Ambiguity 9
7. 2. Does God Speak in Textual Variants? 30
8. 3. Does God Speak Ambiguously? 74
9. 4. The Blessing of Dissent 94
10. 5. The Islamization of Islam 129
11. 6. Language: A Serious Business and a Game 151
12. 7. The Ambiguity of Sexual Desire 183
13. 8. The Serene Look at the World 214
14. 9. In Quest of Certainty 259
15. Sonderwege 268
16. Notes 281
17. Bibliography 303
18. Index 317