Islamophobia and Epistemological Ignorance
Islamophobia is sustained, not through personal prejudice, but through a systemic refusal to see Quebec’s own Whiteness as integral to its national identity.
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Whose People? The Oppression of Uyghurs and the Idea of the Muslim World
Public callouts against Muslim-majority countries’ silence on Uyghur oppression demonstrate how normative ideas about “the Muslim World” and monolithic ideas about Islam in politics continue to prevail at multiple discursive levels despite vast evidence of the heterogeneity of the politics of Muslim-majority countries.
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Hierarchy, Interdependence, and Islamic Ethics
Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality
The understanding of humans as interconnected in their striving towards ethical excellence carries tremendous potential as a foundational story for the narratives that Muslim feminists construct about human flourishing.
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The Subject of Ethics
Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality
What the ethicists offer us is, in part, the reminder that ethical self-cultivation is the bedrock of a moral society. What Ayubi offers us is the assurance that a democratization of that ethical project is possible and desirable.
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Sustainable Resources: Reimagining Our Relationship with the Earth
Series: Ansari Conference 2018
In the age of the anthropocene—climate change brought about by human actions—religious traditions can offer vital resources for reimagining a sustainable relationship between humans, other animals, and the earth.
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The Shabbat Massacre Is Not Merely About Religion
The Shabbat massacre is not only a hate crime. It is also the latest expression of racialized Christian construction of boundaries.
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Our Jerusalem of Unspoken Stories
Series: Jerusalem
For Palestinians, the loss is real and sustained, mostly spoken of privately, like a wound you would not like to expose openly.
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Jerusalem and the Soul of the Abrahamic Traditions
Series: Jerusalem
It is a harsh and bitter irony that the holiest sites of the Abrahamic faiths are either abodes of exclusivism or of strife and conflict.
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Eternal Enmities: A Jewish Decolonial Re-Evaluation of Western Altruism
Series: Decolonizing Narratives
The Jewish-Muslim case is one of many that invite us to unveil what has been hidden, contest what has been naturalized, and move beyond modern/colonial liberal narratives.
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Pious Fashion: Designing Modern Muslim Citizens
Series: Decolonizing Narratives
Men’s clothing is the marker of the nation’s power and modernity; women’s clothing is the marker of its morality, honor, and ethnic identity.
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