The Muslim Speaks
Author | : Khurram Hussain |
Publisher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781786999719 |
ISBN-13 | : 1786999714 |
Rating | : 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Muslim Speaks written by Khurram Hussain and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.