Pub Date : 2023-09-09DOI: 10.13169/reorient.8.1.0004
Barnor Hesse
Jacques Derrida: If we were here to talk about me, which is not the case, I would tell you that, in a different but analogous manner, it’s the same thing for me. I was born into a family of Algerian Jews who spoke French, but that was not really their language of origin. I wrote a little book on the subject, and in a certain way I am always in the process of speaking what I call the “monolingualism of the other”. I have no contact of any sort with my language of origin, or rather that of my supposed ancestors.1
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Pub Date : 2023-09-09DOI: 10.13169/reorient.8.1.0124
Nik Zych
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Pub Date : 2023-09-09DOI: 10.13169/reorient.8.1.0101
F. R. Karim
There have been numerous studies devoted to examining the historical content of the Sīra. These studies have varied from being cautious of minute and specific details, such as the specifics of conquests, to full-blown scepticism of the entire tradition. This article seeks to contribute to this discussion by examining one of the most ubiquitously held positions on age, that of Khadījah marrying the Prophet Muhammad at the age of 40. Based on the earliest narratives and contextual information, we argue that this age is unlikely. Instead, this number serves more as a symbolic literary device because of the way it is used in contemporaneous Arabic literature. Aspects of her biography, such as the number of children she had with the Prophet, also make this older age less likely. However, this does not necessitate disregarding the Sīra tradition. On the contrary, we argue that by working closely with this tradition we are able to extract a far more likely age of 28.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-09DOI: 10.13169/reorient.8.1.0129
Sophia Steel
{"title":"Tazeen M. Ali. The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam","authors":"Sophia Steel","doi":"10.13169/reorient.8.1.0129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.8.1.0129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77693498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-09DOI: 10.13169/reorient.8.1.0057
Daniel Tutt
This article deconstructs the conceptual framework of the social theorist Salman Sayyid by critically examining his work on the political and hegemony in relation to the thought of the post-Marxist philosopher Ernesto Laclau. Sayyid elaborates a theory of the political that necessitates a communal break with existing society, a move very similar to Laclau and post-Marxist thought more generally. In analyzing Sayyid’s theories of the caliphate with Laclau’s conception of hegemonic struggle, the author suggests that the construction of any caliphate should think about the question of solidarity with “plebs” or those discarded from the system of capitalism. The article concludes with an analysis of how Sayyid’s theoretical praxis can be applied in American Muslim political activism through the concept of the counterpublic.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-09DOI: 10.13169/reorient.8.1.0034
Sümeyye Sakarya
This article is not a contemplation on women and politics. Neither is it a discussion on Muslim women, the hijab, and Islamism. Instead, this is a testimony to and a remark on Şule Yüksel Şenler, an Islamist vernacular intellectual who blazed a trail in the Islamist politics of Türkiye commencing in the 1960s but existed in the Islamism literature rather through her absence. Şenler vernacularised Islamism by mobilising the hijab, public talks, cinema, literature, journalism, and womanhood, amongst other things such as charities, organisations and politics. As a testimony, I begin with a depiction of the context by providing a chronicle of Turkish politics focusing on the 1960s with a biographical note on Şenler. Next, as a remark, I attempt to work her out as a vernacular intellectual who fashioned the context that concurrently moulded her. To this end, I present Grant Farred’s concept of vernacular intellectual. Farred coins the term to account for the particular intellectual figures who emerged from the anti/postcolonial struggles. Then, I narrate the story of Şenler by expanding the vernacular intellectual and vernacular beyond the conventional postcolonial setting.
这篇文章不是关于妇女和政治的沉思。它也不是关于穆斯林妇女、头巾和伊斯兰主义的讨论。相反，这是对Şule y ksel Şenler的见证和评论，她是一位伊斯兰本土知识分子，从20世纪60年代开始，她在伊斯兰主义伊斯兰主义政治中开辟了一条道路，但在伊斯兰主义文学中存在，而不是通过她的缺席。Şenler通过动员头巾、公开演讲、电影、文学、新闻和女性，以及慈善、组织和政治等其他事物，使伊斯兰主义白话化。作为证词，我首先通过提供一份土耳其政治编年史来描述背景，重点关注20世纪60年代，并在Şenler上提供传记笔记。接下来，作为评论，我试图把她理解为一个本土知识分子，她塑造了同时塑造了她的环境。为此，我提出格兰特·法雷德的白话知识分子概念。法瑞德创造了这个词来描述那些在反/后殖民斗争中出现的特殊知识分子。然后，我在传统的后殖民背景之外，通过扩展白话知识分子和白话来叙述Şenler的故事。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-09DOI: 10.13169/reorient.8.1.0135
Claudia Radiven
{"title":"Bakali, N. and Hafez, F. The Rise of Global Islamophobia in the War on Terror: Coloniality, Race and Islam","authors":"Claudia Radiven","doi":"10.13169/reorient.8.1.0135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.8.1.0135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72996528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-09DOI: 10.13169/reorient.8.1.0132
Rahmanara Chowdhury
{"title":"Schmid, H., and Sheikhzadegan, A. Exploring Islamic Social Work: Between Community and the Common Good","authors":"Rahmanara Chowdhury","doi":"10.13169/reorient.8.1.0132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.8.1.0132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72405178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-09DOI: 10.13169/reorient.8.1.0078
Nadiya N. Ali, Lucy El-Sherif, Hawa Y. Mire
The existing Islamophobia 1 literature has come to illustrate how the Muslim subject “can at a moment’s notice be erected as [an] object of supervision and discipline” (Morey and Yaqin 2011: 5–6). In the popular imagination, Muslimhood 2 has come to stand for an undifferentiated culturally alien oriental subject defined through the prism of racialized violence and irrationality. Although much of the anti-Islamophobia efforts – academic and community-based – work to combat the reductiveness of a universalized Muslim figure, these efforts tend to uncritically take up the brown Muslim figure as the starting point of inquiry, thereby further reifying the homogenizing racialization of dominant discourses. This article opens up the possibilities to expand thinking on the lifeworld of Islamophobia by addressing the erasure that happens with this homogenizing approach to Islamophobia. In particular, we consider the dialogical nature between the operational life of Islamophobia and the differing proximities to whiteness our intersectional subject positions make available. And in turn, how these availabilities come to shape the experience of Islamophobia is a prime focus of analysis. The authors ask: how does the systemic demarcation of Muslim subjectivity, across racial, ethnic, class, regional, and ideological lines, interact with how Islamophobia is experienced and operationalized? Leveraging an auto-ethnographic approach, we provide first-person narratives of Islamophobic encounters from our respective geopolitical and social locations to deconstruct and delineate an intersectional understanding of Islamophobia.
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