Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Kanjwal’s book seeks to imagine a social world outside the varied bonds and discourses of states.
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Understanding politics of life as a colonial governmentality directs attention to the desires, interests, and motivations that the Bakshi regime sought to produce in Kashmiri subjects.
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The reduction of Kashmiris into simplistic tropes reinforces a colonizer-colonized dynamic, one which has enabled the Indian state to justify its control over the region.
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What happens when the postcolonial state itself becomes an agent of colonization and not merely one of its victims?
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We cannot allow [our] differences to transmutate into subjugation, violence, terror—lest we become monsters ourselves.
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Muslims in the West, like others, can maintain and hold on to their theological claims, while beautifying their social presence with and among others.
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What is disclosed when we seek to understand the fine line of difference within us all?
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The unknowability and oscillation of the soul imbue individuals with a radical otherness or alterity.
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Patel leads us to a generative space of inquiry, offering multiple routes of exploration as we seek to understand human nature and the human quest to know ultimate reality.
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Patel’s hope is to offer resources for building a “Muslim modernity” from the sources that have sustained the tradition.
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