The Muslim Speaks (Hardback)
Hardcover 384 pages English Aug 04, 2020
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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.
- Author:
- Khurram Hussain
- Publisher:
- Zed Books
- Publication Date:
- Aug 04, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 384 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1786998874
- ISBN-13:
- 9781786998873