M A Muqtedar Khan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1074190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M A Muqtedar Khan |
| GIVEN NAMES | M A Muqtedar |
| FAMILY NAME | Khan |
| SIGNATURE | KHAN M A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0538-3966 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Political under-representation and socio-economic marginalisation of Muslims in India
Emerging Hindu Rashtra and Its Impact on Indian Muslims
This article examines the impact of the gradual Hindutvaization of Indian culture and politics on Indian Muslims. The article contrasts the status of Muslims in the still secular, pluralistic, and democratic constitution of India with the rather marginalized reality of Muslims since the rise of Hindu nationalism. The article argues that successive electoral victories by Hindu nationalist party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, has precipitated politic…
Islam and Good Governance
Political Muslims in America
Political authority in Islam
Handbook on Islam and Economic Life is a unique study, one of the first of its kind to consider Islam within a broader economic sphere. Covering a wide breadth of topics and research, it explores how Islam impinges upon and seeks to shape major aspects of economic life including economic organisation, business and management, finance and investment, charity, mutuality and self-help, and government. It concludes by analysing the link between relig…
Islam, Democracy and Islamism After the Counterrevolution in Egypt
Islam and Post modernity
Ideologies are directly albeit not always perceptibly related to methodological and epistemological themes. Social psychology also reveals that knowledge depends upon the policy of rejection or incorporation of various philosophies. In the journey of human thought dawned the age of reason with the Era of Enlightenment. Gradually, universal values and the scientific method gained supremacy. And then all the grand narratives stood redundant and rej…
American Exceptionalism and American Muslims
To examine their attitudes regarding American exceptionalism, it is helpful to cluster American Muslims into two general groups: African American Muslims and immigrant Muslims (including the integrated children of the immigrant Muslims). The legacy of racism prompts many African American leaders to see exceptionalism as excluding African Americans. Members of the immigrant Muslim community tend to either embrace or reject American exceptionalism,…
Debating Moderate Islam
After 9/11, many Americans took the view that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were the leading edge of a new war: Islam versus the West. Yet the attacks were also part of the current struggle within Islam between fundamentalist and moderate approaches and were staged for maximum effect in the Muslim world.This book is based on a special-topic issue of the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (Fall 2005), and brings t…
US Government and American Muslims Engage to Define Islamophobia
On 4 December 2006, the American Muslims’ national leadership met withkey senior American government officials to discuss Islamophobia in thecountry and American-Muslim relations. The conference, organized by theBridging the Divide Initiative of the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution,was co-sponsored by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding(ISPU) and the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS).As conference chair, I had …
Moderate Muslims Are the Key to the Future of Islam and American-Muslim Relations
I found that in Ariel Cohen’s responses, the devil is, so to speak, in the details.I definitely agree with his understanding of what characteristics constitute amoderate Muslim – eschewing violence, and advocating tolerance and pluralism.But when he begins to identify moderate Muslims specifically byname, I find that he mentions individuals who do not exactly represent themainstream Muslim communities, wherever they are. Does that mean thatmodera…
Islamic Democracy and Moderate Muslims
The Debate Question 1: Various commentators have frequently invoked the importance of moderate Muslims and the role that they can play in fighting extremism in the Muslim world. But it is not clear who is a moderate Muslim. The recent cancellation of Tariq Ramadan’s visa to the United States, the raids on several American Muslim organizations, and the near marginalization of mainstream American Muslims in North America pose the following question…
Radical Islam, Liberal Islam
It is in the battle for Islam's soul that the United States and liberal Islam share a common strategic goal: the systematic dismantlement and delegitimization of the rogue Islamist discourse that portrays America as an anti-Islam crusader and Islam as an ideology of hate and violence
Prospects for Muslim Democracy
The Political Philosophy of Islamic Resurgence
This article is an attempt to synthesize and extract the philosophical elements of the Islamist discourse. It argues that contained within the discourse of contemporary Islamic resurgence are the foundations of an Islamic political philosophy. The article identifies three central dimensions-critical, reconstitutive, and programmatic-in the political philosophy of Islamic resurgence and explores the arguments developed under those categories. The …
The Annual Convention of the Association of Muslim Social scientists
The Annual Convention of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists(AMSS), was held at the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciencesin Leesburg, VA 29-31 October.By all accounts, this convention was a success and heralds a resurgenceof the Association. The convention generated an air of excitement andexpectations about the Association’s immediate future. Over 150 participantsattended and 70 presentations were made. In addition, the conventi…
Reason and Individual Reasoning
The term “ljtihad” itself means to strive hard. But it has been widely usedto imply independent reasoning in the development of Islamic jurisprudence.The contemporary understanding, shared widely by formally trainedIslamic jurists, defines Ijtihad as an intellectual tool that seeks to articulateIslamic laws about issues on which the Qur’an and the Sunnah are decidedlysilent. This standard and orthodox conceptualization of Ijtihad, theoreticallyli…
Identity as Epistemology
Purposeful PhilosophyThe first order of things requires an explication of the purpose of thisinquiry into Islamic epistemology. In order to do so, I shall have to distinguishbetween academic philosophy, pure philosophy, and purposeful philosophy.Academic philosophy is a product of the modem academic institutionalstructure of recognition and discipline. This academic structurecompels scholars to produce scholarship for the sake of scholarship. Ihe…
Islamic Dimensions of the East Asian Economic Miracle
in PerspectiveThis editorial seeks to identify the missing dimensions of Islamic economicsand the Islamic dimensions of East Asian economies. In doing so,it advances a critical review of the present discourse on Islamic economicsand highlights some of its oversights. At the outset, it must be clearlyunderstood that I am not critical of the very idea of an Islamic economics.I think that at a time when global intellectual leadership has been usurpe…
Self and Knowledge
The contempomy intellectual revival of Muslim societies proposes aprofound but problematic relationship between identity and epistemology,and between self and knowledge. I propose to elucidate this relationshipand its implications by making a fundamental distinction between self andidentity, and showing how there can be many identities but only one self. Ibegin by inquiring into the meaning of identity symbols such as “Islam” or“Muslim” prior to …
Islam and Peace
February 6-7, 1998. Sponsored by NonviolenceInternational and the Mohammad Said Farsi Chair of IslamicPeace at The American University, Washington, DC.At a time when the Muslim world is suffering from an unmitigated epidemicof violence, both from within and from without, Muslim scholarsand peace and social activists got together for two days to examine theIslamic tradition of peace and to explore strategies to once again realizethis Islamic ideal…
Constructing Identity in “Glocal” Politics
This paper seeks to understand the impact of current global politicaland socioeconomic conditions on the construction of identity. I advancean argument based on a two-step logic. First, I challenge the characterizationof current socioeconomic conditions as one of globalization bymarshaling arguments and evidence that strongly suggest that along withglobalization, there are simultaneous processes of localization proliferatingin the world today. I …
P olicy E ntrepreneurs
“The Great oil boom was an event so profoundly and broadly influential that it provides the key to understanding the surge of Islam.” — Daniel Pipes, 1983. “Yet it is naive to attribute the Islamic revival mainly to oil.” — John Esposito, 1985. “Yes, I did publish a book in 1983, In the Path of God , suggesting that the resurgence of Islam in the 1970s resulted from the boom in oil wealth. At this point I don't know what causes fundamentalism..[I…
Prospects for Muslim Democracy
Islam, Democracy and Islamism After the Counterrevolution in Egypt
Emerging Hindu Rashtra and Its Impact on Indian Muslims
This article examines the impact of the gradual Hindutvaization of Indian culture and politics on Indian Muslims. The article contrasts the status of Muslims in the still secular, pluralistic, and democratic constitution of India with the rather marginalized reality of Muslims since the rise of Hindu nationalism. The article argues that successive electoral victories by Hindu nationalist party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, has precipitated politic…
Political Muslims in America
Political under-representation and socio-economic marginalisation of Muslims in India
American Exceptionalism and American Muslims
To examine their attitudes regarding American exceptionalism, it is helpful to cluster American Muslims into two general groups: African American Muslims and immigrant Muslims (including the integrated children of the immigrant Muslims). The legacy of racism prompts many African American leaders to see exceptionalism as excluding African Americans. Members of the immigrant Muslim community tend to either embrace or reject American exceptionalism,…
The Political Philosophy of Islamic Resurgence
This article is an attempt to synthesize and extract the philosophical elements of the Islamist discourse. It argues that contained within the discourse of contemporary Islamic resurgence are the foundations of an Islamic political philosophy. The article identifies three central dimensions-critical, reconstitutive, and programmatic-in the political philosophy of Islamic resurgence and explores the arguments developed under those categories. The …
Constructing Identity in “Glocal” Politics
This paper seeks to understand the impact of current global politicaland socioeconomic conditions on the construction of identity. I advancean argument based on a two-step logic. First, I challenge the characterizationof current socioeconomic conditions as one of globalization bymarshaling arguments and evidence that strongly suggest that along withglobalization, there are simultaneous processes of localization proliferatingin the world today. I …
P olicy E ntrepreneurs
“The Great oil boom was an event so profoundly and broadly influential that it provides the key to understanding the surge of Islam.” — Daniel Pipes, 1983. “Yet it is naive to attribute the Islamic revival mainly to oil.” — John Esposito, 1985. “Yes, I did publish a book in 1983, In the Path of God , suggesting that the resurgence of Islam in the 1970s resulted from the boom in oil wealth. At this point I don't know what causes fundamentalism..[I…
Islam and Peace
February 6-7, 1998. Sponsored by NonviolenceInternational and the Mohammad Said Farsi Chair of IslamicPeace at The American University, Washington, DC.At a time when the Muslim world is suffering from an unmitigated epidemicof violence, both from within and from without, Muslim scholarsand peace and social activists got together for two days to examine theIslamic tradition of peace and to explore strategies to once again realizethis Islamic ideal…
Constructing Identity in “Glocal” Politics
This paper seeks to understand the impact of current global politicaland socioeconomic conditions on the construction of identity. I advancean argument based on a two-step logic. First, I challenge the characterizationof current socioeconomic conditions as one of globalization bymarshaling arguments and evidence that strongly suggest that along withglobalization, there are simultaneous processes of localization proliferatingin the world today. I …
The Annual Convention of the Association of Muslim Social scientists
The Annual Convention of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists(AMSS), was held at the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciencesin Leesburg, VA 29-31 October.By all accounts, this convention was a success and heralds a resurgenceof the Association. The convention generated an air of excitement andexpectations about the Association’s immediate future. Over 150 participantsattended and 70 presentations were made. In addition, the conventi…
Reason and Individual Reasoning
The term “ljtihad” itself means to strive hard. But it has been widely usedto imply independent reasoning in the development of Islamic jurisprudence.The contemporary understanding, shared widely by formally trainedIslamic jurists, defines Ijtihad as an intellectual tool that seeks to articulateIslamic laws about issues on which the Qur’an and the Sunnah are decidedlysilent. This standard and orthodox conceptualization of Ijtihad, theoreticallyli…
Identity as Epistemology
Purposeful PhilosophyThe first order of things requires an explication of the purpose of thisinquiry into Islamic epistemology. In order to do so, I shall have to distinguishbetween academic philosophy, pure philosophy, and purposeful philosophy.Academic philosophy is a product of the modem academic institutionalstructure of recognition and discipline. This academic structurecompels scholars to produce scholarship for the sake of scholarship. Ihe…
Islamic Dimensions of the East Asian Economic Miracle
in PerspectiveThis editorial seeks to identify the missing dimensions of Islamic economicsand the Islamic dimensions of East Asian economies. In doing so,it advances a critical review of the present discourse on Islamic economicsand highlights some of its oversights. At the outset, it must be clearlyunderstood that I am not critical of the very idea of an Islamic economics.I think that at a time when global intellectual leadership has been usurpe…
Self and Knowledge
The contempomy intellectual revival of Muslim societies proposes aprofound but problematic relationship between identity and epistemology,and between self and knowledge. I propose to elucidate this relationshipand its implications by making a fundamental distinction between self andidentity, and showing how there can be many identities but only one self. Ibegin by inquiring into the meaning of identity symbols such as “Islam” or“Muslim” prior to …
The Political Philosophy of Islamic Resurgence
This article is an attempt to synthesize and extract the philosophical elements of the Islamist discourse. It argues that contained within the discourse of contemporary Islamic resurgence are the foundations of an Islamic political philosophy. The article identifies three central dimensions-critical, reconstitutive, and programmatic-in the political philosophy of Islamic resurgence and explores the arguments developed under those categories. The …
Radical Islam, Liberal Islam
It is in the battle for Islam's soul that the United States and liberal Islam share a common strategic goal: the systematic dismantlement and delegitimization of the rogue Islamist discourse that portrays America as an anti-Islam crusader and Islam as an ideology of hate and violence
Prospects for Muslim Democracy
Moderate Muslims Are the Key to the Future of Islam and American-Muslim Relations
I found that in Ariel Cohen’s responses, the devil is, so to speak, in the details.I definitely agree with his understanding of what characteristics constitute amoderate Muslim – eschewing violence, and advocating tolerance and pluralism.But when he begins to identify moderate Muslims specifically byname, I find that he mentions individuals who do not exactly represent themainstream Muslim communities, wherever they are. Does that mean thatmodera…
Islamic Democracy and Moderate Muslims
The Debate Question 1: Various commentators have frequently invoked the importance of moderate Muslims and the role that they can play in fighting extremism in the Muslim world. But it is not clear who is a moderate Muslim. The recent cancellation of Tariq Ramadan’s visa to the United States, the raids on several American Muslim organizations, and the near marginalization of mainstream American Muslims in North America pose the following question…
US Government and American Muslims Engage to Define Islamophobia
On 4 December 2006, the American Muslims’ national leadership met withkey senior American government officials to discuss Islamophobia in thecountry and American-Muslim relations. The conference, organized by theBridging the Divide Initiative of the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution,was co-sponsored by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding(ISPU) and the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS).As conference chair, I had …
Debating Moderate Islam
After 9/11, many Americans took the view that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were the leading edge of a new war: Islam versus the West. Yet the attacks were also part of the current struggle within Islam between fundamentalist and moderate approaches and were staged for maximum effect in the Muslim world.This book is based on a special-topic issue of the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (Fall 2005), and brings t…
American Exceptionalism and American Muslims
To examine their attitudes regarding American exceptionalism, it is helpful to cluster American Muslims into two general groups: African American Muslims and immigrant Muslims (including the integrated children of the immigrant Muslims). The legacy of racism prompts many African American leaders to see exceptionalism as excluding African Americans. Members of the immigrant Muslim community tend to either embrace or reject American exceptionalism,…
Islam and Post modernity
Ideologies are directly albeit not always perceptibly related to methodological and epistemological themes. Social psychology also reveals that knowledge depends upon the policy of rejection or incorporation of various philosophies. In the journey of human thought dawned the age of reason with the Era of Enlightenment. Gradually, universal values and the scientific method gained supremacy. And then all the grand narratives stood redundant and rej…
Political authority in Islam
Handbook on Islam and Economic Life is a unique study, one of the first of its kind to consider Islam within a broader economic sphere. Covering a wide breadth of topics and research, it explores how Islam impinges upon and seeks to shape major aspects of economic life including economic organisation, business and management, finance and investment, charity, mutuality and self-help, and government. It concludes by analysing the link between relig…
Islam, Democracy and Islamism After the Counterrevolution in Egypt
Political Muslims in America
Islam and Good Governance
Emerging Hindu Rashtra and Its Impact on Indian Muslims
This article examines the impact of the gradual Hindutvaization of Indian culture and politics on Indian Muslims. The article contrasts the status of Muslims in the still secular, pluralistic, and democratic constitution of India with the rather marginalized reality of Muslims since the rise of Hindu nationalism. The article argues that successive electoral victories by Hindu nationalist party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, has precipitated politic…
Political under-representation and socio-economic marginalisation of Muslims in India
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