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The Muslim Speaks

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The Muslim Speaks

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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.

Table of Contents

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

Product details

Published 29 Oct 2020
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Pages 384
ISBN 9781786998880
Imprint Zed Books
Dimensions 216 x 135 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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