The Muslim Speaks

ISBN-13: 9781786998880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 384 str.

USA) Hussain Khurram (Lehigh University

Opis

The Muslim Speaks reimagines Islam as a strategy for investigating the modern condition. Rather than imagining it as an issue external to a discrete West, Khurram Hussain constructs Islam as internal to the elaboration and expansion of the West. In doing so he reveals three discursive traps - that of 'freedom', 'reason' and 'culture' - that inhibit the availability of Islam as a feasible, critical interlocutor in Western deliberations about moral, intellectual and political concerns. Through close examination of this inhibition, Hussain posits that while Islamophobia is clearly a moral wrong, 'depoliticization' more accurately describes the problems associated with the lived experience of Muslims in the West and elsewhere. Weaving together his conclusions in the hope of a common world, Khurram Hussain boldy and quite radically deems that what Islam needs is not depoliticization, but infact repoliticization.

Spis treści

Preface Introduction: Can the Muslim Speak? 1. The Slanted Abyss 2. Mirror, Mirror... 3. Freedom Talk 4. Reason Talk 5. Culture Talk Conclusion: Amor Mundi Notes Bibliography Index