Ashraf Kunnummal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1230570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashraf Kunnummal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashraf |
| FAMILY NAME | Kunnummal |
| SIGNATURE | KUNNUMMAL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9769-2610 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Towards an understanding of the activism and practices of the Islamophobia Research Collective in Kerala, India
This article examines how activists in the Islamophobia Research Collective in Kerala transform their lived experiences of Islamophobia into systematic documentation, knowledge production, and collective action. Situated within a political landscape reshaped by Hindutva, where Muslims encounter heightened surveillance and constraints on political agency within enduring structural hierarchies, the article traces the Islamophobia Research Collectiv…
Between Appeal to Citizenship and Biopolitical Fracture
This article aims to analyze the Islamophobic politics at the heart of citizenship denial in the context of India’s CAA-NRC legislation in December 2019 by the Indian Parliament under the leadership of the BJP. The politics of citizenship denial in India thus emerges in appearance as a legal tussle between the Muslim minority citizenship rights and Hindu nationalism in India. However, the biopolitical fracture of the Indian nation-state makes the…
On the Limits of Islamic Cinema
Some of the most crucial debates surrounding Islamic legitimacy and cinema rotate around the question of the permissible ( ḥalāl) and prohibited ( ḥarām) in Islamic law and how these function for Muslim theology and politics. Emerging from these debates, halal cinema has been one of the recent critical interventions in the field of Indian and Islamic cinema. Rather than making cinema Islamic from an ideological position, the new halal experiments…
Islamic Liberation Theology and Decolonial Studies
Decolonial studies define the coloniality of power as a complex assemblage of dominance and hegemony that emerged during the modern era or the era of colonialism, which stretches from the conquest of the Americas to the present. This article argues that, as part of the critical dialogue between decolonial studies and Islamic liberation theology, the latter should position itself in a decolonial political praxis around the preferential option for …
Islamophobia Studies in India
This article aims to situate the problems and prospects of thinking about critical Islamophobia studies in the context of India. In doing so, first, the article traces the technical and political impasses to the emergence of critical Islamophobia studies in India by looking at the problem of denial of Islamophobia with respect to Indian nationalism and at the same time the rise of a new security paradigm in the context of the global war on terror…
Seeking the Muslim Gandhi
This paper examines the question of Islam and its relationship to violence in Muslim reformer Asghar Ali Engineer’s pre- and post-11 September 2001 works in response to the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC . We argue that that while his pre-9/11 approach to violence offers a much more historical and systemic account of violence by viewing it as a societal problem involving a number of different agents, the…
Islamic Liberation Theology and Decolonial Studies
Decolonial studies define the coloniality of power as a complex assemblage of dominance and hegemony that emerged during the modern era or the era of colonialism, which stretches from the conquest of the Americas to the present. This article argues that, as part of the critical dialogue between decolonial studies and Islamic liberation theology, the latter should position itself in a decolonial political praxis around the preferential option for …
Seeking the Muslim Gandhi
This paper examines the question of Islam and its relationship to violence in Muslim reformer Asghar Ali Engineer’s pre- and post-11 September 2001 works in response to the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC . We argue that that while his pre-9/11 approach to violence offers a much more historical and systemic account of violence by viewing it as a societal problem involving a number of different agents, the…
Islamophobia Studies in India
This article aims to situate the problems and prospects of thinking about critical Islamophobia studies in the context of India. In doing so, first, the article traces the technical and political impasses to the emergence of critical Islamophobia studies in India by looking at the problem of denial of Islamophobia with respect to Indian nationalism and at the same time the rise of a new security paradigm in the context of the global war on terror…
On the Limits of Islamic Cinema
Some of the most crucial debates surrounding Islamic legitimacy and cinema rotate around the question of the permissible ( ḥalāl) and prohibited ( ḥarām) in Islamic law and how these function for Muslim theology and politics. Emerging from these debates, halal cinema has been one of the recent critical interventions in the field of Indian and Islamic cinema. Rather than making cinema Islamic from an ideological position, the new halal experiments…
Islamic Liberation Theology and Decolonial Studies
Decolonial studies define the coloniality of power as a complex assemblage of dominance and hegemony that emerged during the modern era or the era of colonialism, which stretches from the conquest of the Americas to the present. This article argues that, as part of the critical dialogue between decolonial studies and Islamic liberation theology, the latter should position itself in a decolonial political praxis around the preferential option for …
Between Appeal to Citizenship and Biopolitical Fracture
This article aims to analyze the Islamophobic politics at the heart of citizenship denial in the context of India’s CAA-NRC legislation in December 2019 by the Indian Parliament under the leadership of the BJP. The politics of citizenship denial in India thus emerges in appearance as a legal tussle between the Muslim minority citizenship rights and Hindu nationalism in India. However, the biopolitical fracture of the Indian nation-state makes the…
Towards an understanding of the activism and practices of the Islamophobia Research Collective in Kerala, India
This article examines how activists in the Islamophobia Research Collective in Kerala transform their lived experiences of Islamophobia into systematic documentation, knowledge production, and collective action. Situated within a political landscape reshaped by Hindutva, where Muslims encounter heightened surveillance and constraints on political agency within enduring structural hierarchies, the article traces the Islamophobia Research Collectiv…
Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (3 works) · Islamophobia (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)