The Muslim speaks / Khurram Hussain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hussain, Khurram, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam and civil society--Western countries.

Islam and civil society.

Islamic modernism.

Islam--Social aspects.

Islam.

Western countries.

Physical Description:

xvii, 366 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Zed Books, 2020.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-354) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781786998873

1786998874

9781786998880

1786998882

OCLC:

1130372791

Publisher Number:

99985646744