‘Mystical is Hardly a Retreat from Political’
In an interview, outlining the salient features of the Islamic decoloniality project, Dr Syed Mustafa Ali calls out the matrix of colonial power which operates an insidious epistemology inflecting our ways of seeing and thinking. Syed Ali contributes to the robust academic-activist enterprise of decoloniality with his original idea of Islamic decoloniality. Syed Ali teaches […]
Towards an Islamic Decoloniality
Dr Syed Mustafa Ali contributes to the robust academic-activist enterprise of decoloniality with his original ideas on Islamic decoloniality. Syed Ali teaches at The Open University in Milton Keynes (UK) as a member of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology. The project of Islamic decoloniality he pioneered exposes various lacunae in leading decolonial projects […]
Eco: The Ego Buster
A week before he departed, I Amazonned Umberto Eco’s Prague Cemetery. Was it a mere coincidence or was it a premonition that the author is soon destined for a cemetery? I have never loved Eco as a novelist. I loved his prose, however. His Misreadings is not only a fun to read but it provokes […]
The Way a Nation is Split Again
While writing this, India is in the throes of an imminent ‘civil war’, as some commentators expect the current turn of events of becoming. When someone with arrogant postures on the pedestal of a violent, arrogant ideology, is democratically destined to rule the country, civil war, or at least its expectations, is its concomitant. Last […]
‘I am fascinated by the question of what God’s problem with poor people is’
‘Committed’ and ‘multi-pronged.’ The adjectives fit well with Dr Farid Esack, his oeuvre, and academic as well as activist engagements. He published Quran, Liberation and Pluralism in 1997; the work was noted for its academic solemnity as well as earnestness to take the message of the divine text to all it matters. In 1999, his […]
A ‘Bagful’ of Tear-Wiping Humor
WRY HUMOUR. In one word or two, that’s what Anees Salim’s VANITY BAGH is. The tongue-in-cheek humour permeates every sentence and every word of the book. The book is in the form of a narrative or rather monologue by Imran Jabbari, an accused in the 11/11 serial blasts and sentenced for sixteen years in […]
No Smoking Guns in Mediated Realities
San Bernardino bore witness to the latest incident that involved gun violence in the US. I read the first news from The Hindu, ‘A heavily armed man and woman terrorized this city on Wednesday, killing 14 people and wounding at least 17 at a social services center before leading the police on a manhunt culminating […]
‘Muslims Are The New Blacks’ : Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L Jackson has claimed that Muslims are the new blacks of America because of how they are being persecuted. The Pulp Fiction star, 67, said that the recent Islamist attacks in Paris and California meant that people saw it as a ‘legitimate reason’ to fear Muslims. He said that he had hoped the California […]
The Muslims who Shaped America – From BrainSurgeons to Rappers
What have Muslims ever done for America? If your sole source of information were Donald Trump, you’d think that the answer was not much – apart from murdering its citizens and trying to destroy its values. The Republican presidential hopeful has called for a halt to Muslims entering the US until American authorities “can figure out” […]
The Lives of Muhammad
Prophet Muhammad is remembered in a multitude of ways, by both Muslims and non-Muslims. And through each retelling we learn a great deal not only about Muhammad but about the social milieu of the authors. In The Lives of Muhammad (Harvard University Press, 2014), Kecia Ali, Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University, explores how several central […]
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