ReOrientPub Date : 2023-09-09DOI: 10.13169/reorient.8.1.0004
Barnor Hesse
{"title":"Derrida’s Black Accent: Decolonial Deconstruction","authors":"Barnor Hesse","doi":"10.13169/reorient.8.1.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.8.1.0004","url":null,"abstract":"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","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":"296 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73160556","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}
ReOrientPub Date : 2023-09-09DOI: 10.13169/reorient.8.1.0124
Nik Zych
{"title":"Jeff Eden. God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War","authors":"Nik Zych","doi":"10.13169/reorient.8.1.0124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.8.1.0124","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83909748","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}
ReOrientPub Date : 2023-09-09DOI: 10.13169/reorient.8.1.0101
F. R. Karim
{"title":"Extracting the Historical Authenticity of Numbers in the Sīra: The Case of Khadījah’s Marriage to the Prophet Muḥammad","authors":"F. R. Karim","doi":"10.13169/reorient.8.1.0101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.8.1.0101","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79027743","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}
ReOrientPub 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":"13 1","pages":""},"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}
ReOrientPub Date : 2023-09-09DOI: 10.13169/reorient.8.1.0057
Daniel Tutt
{"title":"A Caliphate of Ideas? Islamic Politics in Dialogue with Contemporary Marxism","authors":"Daniel Tutt","doi":"10.13169/reorient.8.1.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.8.1.0057","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87771849","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}
ReOrientPub Date : 2023-09-09DOI: 10.13169/reorient.8.1.0034
Sümeyye Sakarya
{"title":"Şule Yüksel Şenler: An Islamist Vernacular Intellectual","authors":"Sümeyye Sakarya","doi":"10.13169/reorient.8.1.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.8.1.0034","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77234248","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}
ReOrientPub 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":"16 1","pages":""},"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}
ReOrientPub 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":"43 11","pages":""},"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}
ReOrientPub Date : 2023-09-09DOI: 10.13169/reorient.8.1.0078
Nadiya N. Ali, Lucy El-Sherif, Hawa Y. Mire
{"title":"Islamophobia and Proximities to Whiteness: Organizing Outside of the Brown Muslim Subject","authors":"Nadiya N. Ali, Lucy El-Sherif, Hawa Y. Mire","doi":"10.13169/reorient.8.1.0078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.8.1.0078","url":null,"abstract":"The existing Islamophobia\u00001\u0000 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\u00002\u0000 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.","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79730039","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}