Schirin Amir‐moazami
Biographic Data
| ID | 186404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Schirin Amir‐moazami |
| GIVEN NAMES | Schirin |
| FAMILY NAME | Amir‐moazami |
| SIGNATURE | MOAZAMI S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | European University Viadrina |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7940-6350 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
‘Not open for debate’
Germany's Staatsräson – enshrined in the official doctrine ‘Israel's security is Germany's reason of state’ – has evolved into a powerful security dispositive with far-reaching geopolitical and domestic effects. This article analyses the operations of power mobilized by this non-legally binding and yet coercive political dogma with a specific focus on academic knowledge production. Foregrounding the intersection of security discourses and ideolog…
Prevent, Promote, and Govern
This article examines the intertwined political rationalities of “Islamism prevention” and democracy promotion in state-led programs in Germany. Drawing on critical scholarship on prevention, democracy promotion, and securitization, the article pursues two interrelated arguments. First, it shows that the politics of distinction between “Islam” and “Islamism” is not merely epistemological but constitutes a governing tool. Such distinctions raciali…
Integration, Memory, and Reason of State in Times of Genocide
for their thoughtful engagements with my book.I am thankful to all for their careful reading and for providing generous and critical feedback.I am particularly glad that my central arguments resonated with their own scholarly work, much of which I deeply admire.Most notably, I appreciate that the book's genealogical reading of liberal-secular power and its racialized regulations was seen as relevant for understanding contemporary minority politic…
Liberal‐secular power and the traps of muslim integration in Western Europe
Throughout the last decades, integration programmes in Western Europe have centrally revolved around debates on Muslim populations and the institutionalization of Islam. The concept of integration has become a master paradigm with which to structure plurality of immigration societies across Western Europe. Critically reflecting this inflation, this article argues that the integration of Muslims is animated by a contingent liberal‐secular matrix t…
Ways of Knowing Muslim Cultures and Societies
This volume showcases a variety of innovative approaches to the study of Muslim societies and cultures, inspired by and honouring Gudrun Krämer and her role in transforming the landscape of Islamic Studies. With contributions from scholars from around the world, the articles cover an extraordinarily wide geographical scope across a broad timeline, with transdisciplinary perspectives and a historically informed focus on contemporary phenomena. The…
Investigating the Secular Body
In the fall of 2012, Germany witnessed a heated debate on male circumcision, triggered by a four-year-old Muslim boy who had suffered complications following a circumcision conducted by a doctor in Cologne. Engaging with Charles Hirschkind's posed question “Is there a secular body?” the article uses this controversy as a starting point to push recent critical scholarship on secularism a little further. It argues that in order to understand the po…
Islam and Gender in Europe
Pitfalls of consensus-orientated dialogue
This article discusses one deliberative approach to dialogue as conceptualized by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas and brings this into a conversation with the current dialogue practice of the Deutsche Islam Konferenz (DIK) in Germany. This ongoing dialogue forum was initiated by the Ministry of the Interior in the autumn of 2006 in order to enact a structured conversation with Muslims and as a means of recognising them as ‘German Muslims’. My mai…
Dialogue as a Governmental Technique
Throughout the last decades, state and civil society actors in Germany have undertaken a number of initiatives in order to enter into a structured conversation with Muslim communities, and to find spokespersons who serve as partners for political authorities. This process has commonly been analysed in terms of its empowering effects for Muslims via the emerging 'institutionalisation' of Islam. The modes and techniques of power at stake in this pr…
D'égal à égal
Cet article analyse le dialogue interculturel en Allemagne grâce à l'outil conceptuel que représente l'herméneutique critique de Gadamer. Le point de départ en est leDeutsche Islam Konferenz(DIK), une initiative de dialogue avec les musulmans menée par l'État en Allemagne. À partir de l'idée de Gadamer du caractère processuel du dialogue et d'une ouverture principielle à la différence de l'autre, je souhaite montrer que le DIK trouve ses origines…
The Production of the Muslim Woman
Why the French Don't Like Headscarves. Islam, the State and Public Space by John R. Bowen
Production discursive et fabrication juridique
Cet article analyse les débats relatifs au foulard en Allemagne en se concentrant sur la production discursive le concernant et ses effets juridiques. Après avoir mis en relief le poids de l’imprégnation chrétienne sur la représentation de la neutralité d’un État séculier, il relativise la portée libérale de la décision de la Cour fédérale constitutionnelle autorisant le port du voile par une enseignante en analysant les discours et conséquences …
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Knowledge, Empowerment and Religious Authority Among Pious Muslim Women in France and Germany
Dialogue as a Governmental Technique
Throughout the last decades, state and civil society actors in Germany have undertaken a number of initiatives in order to enter into a structured conversation with Muslim communities, and to find spokespersons who serve as partners for political authorities. This process has commonly been analysed in terms of its empowering effects for Muslims via the emerging 'institutionalisation' of Islam. The modes and techniques of power at stake in this pr…
Liberal‐secular power and the traps of muslim integration in Western Europe
Throughout the last decades, integration programmes in Western Europe have centrally revolved around debates on Muslim populations and the institutionalization of Islam. The concept of integration has become a master paradigm with which to structure plurality of immigration societies across Western Europe. Critically reflecting this inflation, this article argues that the integration of Muslims is animated by a contingent liberal‐secular matrix t…
Muslim Challenges to the Secular Consensus
The enduring presence and rising public visibility of Muslims residing in European societies has increasingly caught the attention of wide parts of the public opinion and triggered a number of heat
Islam and Gender in Europe
Pitfalls of consensus-orientated dialogue
This article discusses one deliberative approach to dialogue as conceptualized by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas and brings this into a conversation with the current dialogue practice of the Deutsche Islam Konferenz (DIK) in Germany. This ongoing dialogue forum was initiated by the Ministry of the Interior in the autumn of 2006 in order to enact a structured conversation with Muslims and as a means of recognising them as ‘German Muslims’. My mai…
D'égal à égal
Cet article analyse le dialogue interculturel en Allemagne grâce à l'outil conceptuel que représente l'herméneutique critique de Gadamer. Le point de départ en est leDeutsche Islam Konferenz(DIK), une initiative de dialogue avec les musulmans menée par l'État en Allemagne. À partir de l'idée de Gadamer du caractère processuel du dialogue et d'une ouverture principielle à la différence de l'autre, je souhaite montrer que le DIK trouve ses origines…
Religiöse Diskurstraditionen
Production discursive et fabrication juridique
Cet article analyse les débats relatifs au foulard en Allemagne en se concentrant sur la production discursive le concernant et ses effets juridiques. Après avoir mis en relief le poids de l’imprégnation chrétienne sur la représentation de la neutralité d’un État séculier, il relativise la portée libérale de la décision de la Cour fédérale constitutionnelle autorisant le port du voile par une enseignante en analysant les discours et conséquences …
Religiöse Diskurstraditionen
Gender, Generation, and the Reform of Tradition
Muslim Challenges to the Secular Consensus
The enduring presence and rising public visibility of Muslims residing in European societies has increasingly caught the attention of wide parts of the public opinion and triggered a number of heat
Knowledge, Empowerment and Religious Authority Among Pious Muslim Women in France and Germany
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Politisierte Religion
Ausgehend von den anhaltenden Debatten um das islamische Kopftuch in staatlichen Bildungseinrichtungen Deutschlands und Frankreichs analysiert Schirin Amir-Moazami die Logiken der Diskursproduktion über den Islam und bringt die Argumente der Kritiker mit den Stimmen Kopftuch tragender junger Musliminnen ins Gespräch. Die Studie zeichnet nach, wie die wachsende Partizipation sichtbarer Muslime, hier symbolisiert durch das Kopftuch, im dominanten D…
Why the French Don't Like Headscarves. Islam, the State and Public Space by John R. Bowen
Production discursive et fabrication juridique
Cet article analyse les débats relatifs au foulard en Allemagne en se concentrant sur la production discursive le concernant et ses effets juridiques. Après avoir mis en relief le poids de l’imprégnation chrétienne sur la représentation de la neutralité d’un État séculier, il relativise la portée libérale de la décision de la Cour fédérale constitutionnelle autorisant le port du voile par une enseignante en analysant les discours et conséquences …
The Production of the Muslim Woman
D'égal à égal
Cet article analyse le dialogue interculturel en Allemagne grâce à l'outil conceptuel que représente l'herméneutique critique de Gadamer. Le point de départ en est leDeutsche Islam Konferenz(DIK), une initiative de dialogue avec les musulmans menée par l'État en Allemagne. À partir de l'idée de Gadamer du caractère processuel du dialogue et d'une ouverture principielle à la différence de l'autre, je souhaite montrer que le DIK trouve ses origines…
Islam and Gender in Europe
Pitfalls of consensus-orientated dialogue
This article discusses one deliberative approach to dialogue as conceptualized by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas and brings this into a conversation with the current dialogue practice of the Deutsche Islam Konferenz (DIK) in Germany. This ongoing dialogue forum was initiated by the Ministry of the Interior in the autumn of 2006 in order to enact a structured conversation with Muslims and as a means of recognising them as ‘German Muslims’. My mai…
Dialogue as a Governmental Technique
Throughout the last decades, state and civil society actors in Germany have undertaken a number of initiatives in order to enter into a structured conversation with Muslim communities, and to find spokespersons who serve as partners for political authorities. This process has commonly been analysed in terms of its empowering effects for Muslims via the emerging 'institutionalisation' of Islam. The modes and techniques of power at stake in this pr…
Investigating the Secular Body
In the fall of 2012, Germany witnessed a heated debate on male circumcision, triggered by a four-year-old Muslim boy who had suffered complications following a circumcision conducted by a doctor in Cologne. Engaging with Charles Hirschkind's posed question “Is there a secular body?” the article uses this controversy as a starting point to push recent critical scholarship on secularism a little further. It argues that in order to understand the po…
Political science (19 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Religion, Theology, and Education (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (7 works) · Islam (6 works) · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)