Can Muslims Think? - Race, Islam, and the End of Europe

As Europe goes astray, deeply conflicted about where it is within and with the world, it does not know what it wants to know about, or do, with the racial subject. In this situation, the Muslim becomes an intense source of anxiety, one that is at once terrifying and called to answer for Europe's existential fear of relegation. Islamophobia thus represents both the racism constitutive of European modernity and is also symptomatic of contemporary transformations in racist power, knowledge, and governance, propelled by technologies and economies of endless wars on terror. But how might the Muslim speak about the world, its past, and unfolding terrors? Which questions must she answer, and which answers does Europe deem acceptable? Presenting a speculative theory of the post-racial subject of Islamophobia, Can Muslims Think? is an attempt to build a vocabulary for analyzing the complexities of racism today, its potential futurity, and techniques for its dismantling.

List of contents

What's in a Question?
Part 1: The Muslim Questioned
Chapter 1: Distance
Chapter 2: Disclosure
Chapter 3: Secrecy
Part 2: The Muslim Question
Chapter 4: Proximity
Chapter 5: Affirmation
Chapter 6: Publicity
Part 3: The Muslim Questioner
Chapter 7: Refusal
Chapter 8: Transparency
Chapter 9: Otherwise. Or, coordinates for an Other world
Bibliography

About the author

Muneeb Hafiz is former Associate Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University, UK. His research concerns the intersections between race, subjectivity, and ecology in the structures and afterlives of European modernity.

Product details

• Authors: Muneeb Hafiz
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781538165072
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6507-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, Ethnic groups & multicultural studies, Social discrimination & inequality, Social discrimination & equal treatment, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Social groups: religious groups & communities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Relating to Islamic people & groups