The Muslim Speaks

By Khurram Hussain

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786998882
• ISBN13: 9781786998880
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.4"