The Muslim Speaks Contributor(s): Hussain, Khurram (Author) |
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ISBN: 1786998882 ISBN-13: 9781786998880 Publisher: Zed Books OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Geopolitics - Political Science | Security (national & International) - Political Science | World - General |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (1.04 lbs) 384 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |