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{"title":"Celine Ibrahim. Women and Gender in the Qur’an","authors":"F. Karim","doi":"10.13169/reorient.7.1.0106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.7.1.0106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80411643","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}

{"title":"Exchanges with Atalia Omer: ReOrienting Jewishness","authors":"Santiago E. Slabodsky","doi":"10.13169/reorient.7.2.0182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.7.2.0182","url":null,"abstract":"This introduction to the contributions of Atalia Omer, and to the commentators of her landmark book Days of Awe, starts with a question that might already be on the reader’s mind. Why is ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies exploring the lessons from an ethnography of American Jews? For those well-acquainted with the journal, this should not come as a complete surprise. Since its inception, ReOrient has been challenging disciplinary and identity silos in order to both understand global hegemonies, and to contest them. One of the crucial contributions of ReOrient is to constitute a critical space in which to deeply interrogate the reified binaries created by scientific positivism and by secularist narratives. The intellectual project of this journal enables us to ReOrient epistemological interventions, so as to collaborate in bringing in a decolonial future beyond the omnipresent “redemptive” modern/colonial “telos of the West” (Sayyid 2014: 11–14; Editorial Board 2015: 5–7). This forum seeks to explore how Omer’s sophisticated and ground-breaking “critical caretaking” of the social movements emerging in one of the centers of the world, led by one of the most allegedly uniformly “successful” Westernized populations, can help us break down geopolitical barriers (Omer 2019: 122–42). After all, before reading Omer’s innovative text, a reader may have difficulty disagreeing with the fact that Jews in North America (historically anteceded by British and Dutch Caribbean Jews [Rosenblatt, 2022]) have for centuries been a test case for an (often difficult) assimilation of normative Jewry into whiteness. In addition, since the Holocaust – when the center of Jewish normativity definitively left Europe – North America has become without question one of the leading spaces, along with occupied Palestine, of both Jewish Westernization and of the consolidation of a hegemonic model of Jewishness across the world. This is particularly important when many readers of ReOrient (including Omer, the commentators, Editorial Board members, and this writer) are deeply suspicious of theory that is universalized from centers of power/knowledge without considering geopolitical conditions. This is precisely where one of the crucial contributions of Omer’s book, subtitled Re-Imagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians, emerges with","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81190093","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}

{"title":"Reading “Days of Awe” through Queer Soviet Jewish Immigrant Barbarism","authors":"S. Sobko","doi":"10.13169/reorient.7.2.0207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.7.2.0207","url":null,"abstract":"In April 1991, just seven months before the collapse of the Soviet Union, my parents held two sets of airplane tickets: one to occupied Palestine (Israel), and the other to occupied Indigenous American land (the US). Although they had been studying Hebrew in Moscow (with an Orthodox Christian, of all people), my parents ultimately relocated our family, including 5-year-old me, to Kumeyaay land (San Diego, CA) on a refugee visa. The years that followed saw my assimilation into American whiteness, a process accelerated by my interpellation as a whitebodied person and by my rapid adoption of American-accented English. Today, unlike many people of color in the US, I am never asked where I am “really from”. While this ascribed whiteness certainly advantages me in material ways, it also invisibilizes and endangers Soviet Ashkenazi Jewish histories, epistemologies, and cultural practices that I hold dear and that diverge from dominant American (including Jewish American) ways of being. Thus, I inevitably approach Omer’s important book and the American Jewish movement for Palestinian solidarity more broadly through the ongoing contestation of my own racialized assimilation, locating liberatory potential in the barbarism of the margins. My reading of Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians suggests that a reclaimed queer Soviet Jewish immigrant “barbarism” makes deorientalizing and decolonial contributions to the ongoing anti-Zionist rescripting of American Jewishness. In the book, Omer engages Slabodsky’s discussions of barbarism, citing his call to “relocate ‘the basis for a potential epistemological alliance’ among those whom Europe renders ‘barbarians’ via the colonial gaze” (Slabodsky 2014; in Omer 2019: 205). Analogously, in the US context, Soviet Jews are rendered barbaric via the imperialist and orientalizing white American gaze, including that of assimilated white American Jews. From the 1970s to early 1990s, this was operationalized in the Movement to “Save the Soviet Jewry”, an Israeli-instigated American campaign that mobilized liberal humanist logics and intra-Jewish solidarity to facilitate Soviet Jewish resettlement. Decades later, residues of the movement’s condescension linger in American Jewish institutions, including leftist, queer, and","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77696208","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}

{"title":"Elizabeth F. Thompson. How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of Its Liberal-Islamic Alliance","authors":"Gehad Hasanin","doi":"10.13169/reorient.7.2.0236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.7.2.0236","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78547521","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}

{"title":"Jasmin Zine. Under Siege: Islamophobia and the 9/11 Generation","authors":"Naved Bakali","doi":"10.13169/reorient.7.2.0222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.7.2.0222","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79263925","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}

{"title":"Charleston and Christchurch and the Politics of Postracial Forgiveness","authors":"S. Ghumkhor","doi":"10.13169/reorient.7.1.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.7.1.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the political work of forgiveness in a secular liberal West by examining the aftermath of two white supremacist violent events: the Charleston church attack in 2015 and the Christchurch mosque attacks in 2019. The article examines how the exaltation of forgiveness over anger after such events is symptomatic of what David Theo Goldberg (2015) calls the “postracial” turn which denies the structural harm of racism and privileges social unity at a time when racism bears its most violent face. What can be ascertained in centring forgiveness, and therefore the unifying figure of the victim of white supremacist violence, is how the postracial conceals the persistence of race as the secular investment and regulation in the articulation of religion in public life.","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81707198","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}

{"title":"Sahar F. Aziz. The Racial Muslim. When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom","authors":"Marta Panighel","doi":"10.13169/reorient.7.2.0225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.7.2.0225","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91311944","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}

{"title":"Academia, Racial, and Social Justice, and Abrahamic Coexistence","authors":"Sa’ed Atshan","doi":"10.13169/reorient.7.2.0198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.7.2.0198","url":null,"abstract":"As I write this essay reflecting on Dr Atalia Omer’s brilliant, and deeply principled, Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians, a petition is circulating among academics that touches on issues at the heart of Omer’s book. Over 600 scholars of Jewish and/or Israeli Studies have now signed the petition in support of Dr Liora Halperin, Associate Professor of International Studies, History, and Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. This came after news broke that the University of Washington had stripped Halperin of her endowed Chair in Israel Studies, as a result of objections from a right-wing donor. This donor expressed disapproval of Halperin’s critiques of the Israeli state, and therefore pressed for the return of the five million dollars she had provided for the Chair. Fortunately, Halperin retains her tenured professorship, and will continue her outstanding research, teaching, and service. But her allies insist that the university must honor the commitment they made to her chair and the resources that came with it. This recent major controversy within the Jewish and Israel Studies worlds is merely the latest among a long history. Consider a different case from December 2020. The Forward (formerly known as the Jewish Daily Forward) reported on the standoff between Dr Marc Dollinger, Professor of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University, and Brandeis University Press. After the murder of George Floyd earlier that year, Dollinger wrote an updated preface for his 2018 book, Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s. The preface included Dollinger’s statement on the increasing integration of white Jewish-American citizens in the United States and their consciousness of how that “reinforced elements of white supremacy in their own lived experience”. Brandeis University Press then received complaints about Dollinger’s words, and engaged the author so that he could edit the preface in order to print the new edition. He declined out of principle and the two parties decided to part ways, with Dollinger seeking a different publisher for his widely read book. While these cases are high-profile and visible, and many are not, Halperin and Dollinger’s experiences are nonetheless emblematic of the pressures that","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80129021","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}

{"title":"Shabbir Akhtar. Be Careful with Muhammad! Salman Rushdie and The Battle for Free Speech","authors":"Ismail Patel","doi":"10.13169/reorient.7.1.0110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.7.1.0110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87793612","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}

{"title":"Amina Easat-Daas. Muslim Women’s Political Participation in France and Belgium","authors":"Irene Zempi","doi":"10.13169/reorient.7.1.0096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.7.1.0096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36347,"journal":{"name":"ReOrient","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73338149","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}