The Politics of What Is Islam?

This essay analyzes the role of politics and power in Shahab Ahmed's What Is Islam? It is framed around three questions: (1) What kind of question is “What is Islam?”—or rather, for whom is this a question, and from which spaces and out of which times does it arise? (2) Who is the Muslim subjec...

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Published in:Comparative studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Africa, and the Middle East, 2020-05, Vol.40 (1), p.198-203
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