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The Muslim speaks / Kuhurram Hussain

By: Hussain, Khurram [Author].

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London, U.K. : Zed Books Ltd., 2020.Description: xvii, 366 p. 23 cm.ISBN: 978-1-78699-887; 978-1-78699-888-0; 978-1-78699-886-6; 978-1-78699-971-9; 978-1-78699-885-9.Subject(s): East and West | International relations | Islam | Muslims | Musulmans | Occident -- Relations -- Pays musulmans | Religion & politics | Islamic countries | -- Islamic countries -- Relations -- Western countries | Western countries | Western countries -- Relations -- Islamic countriesDDC classification: 297.27

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Summary: "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." -- Book cover

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incl. bibliographical references and index

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

"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." -- Book cover

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