Ruth Mas
Biographic Data
| ID | 2364158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Mas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Mas |
| SIGNATURE | MAS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What is the Epistemology of a Genocide? Reflection on ReOrient and Critical Muslim Studies
Textual Riots
The Red Thread of Christianity
Mas examines Anidjar's response to Nancy in order to argue against readings that understand Anidjar's treatment of the concept of Christianity as indiscriminately referring to secularism, globalisation, the West, or Westernisation. In Mas's reading, Christianity is simply a conceptual instantiation of the continuity between, of, and from civilisational and imperial power. Mas argues that to understand the discursivity of Christianity as a concept…
Exchanges: With Gil Anidjar
Middle English eschaungen < Anglo-French eschaungier < Vulgar Latin *excambiāre; late 15c., from Old French eschangier "exchange, barter," from Vulgar Latin *excambiare n. (noun) Middle English eschaunge < Anglo-French (Old French eschange), derivative of eschaungier; late 14c., "act of reciprocal giving and receiving," from Anglo-French eschaunge, Old French eschange (Modern French échange), from Late Latin excambium, from excambiare, from Latin…
Why Critique
This paper examines the stakes in disentangling critique from its Western operation in order to locate a position of political freedom for the critical study of the Islamic tradition. It considers how the question of the critical study of Islam is a question about the political significance of the concept of critique, and the challenge that the study of the Islamic tradition poses to the discriminating operation of Western criticism. It argues th…
Refiguring Translation in Religious Studies
This paper examines how Derrida’s “generalized translation” is taken up as posing the fundamental theoretical question underpinning Mandair’s book. Tracing Mandair’s understanding of translation through Saiko’s concept of co-figuration, this article examines the Kantian origins of this understanding and then details how Derrida departs radically from these origins in his account of the untranslatability of religion. Derrida, by distinguishing gen…
Transnational conceptions of Islamic community: National and religious subjectivities
Transnational Politics: Recent Accounts of Muslims in France
Book Review| July 01 2010 Transnational Politics: Recent Accounts of Muslims in France Killian, Caitlin, North African Women in France: Gender, Culture, and Identity (Stanford University Press, 2006).Gray, Doris H., Muslim Women on the Move: Moroccan Women and French Women of Moroccan Origin Speak Out (Lexington Books, 2008).Keaton, Trica Danielle, Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion (Indiana Universit…
Compelling the Muslim Subject: "Memory as Post-Colonial Violence and the Public Performativity of "Secular and Cultural Islam
Love as difference: The politics of love in the thought of Malek Chebel
This article discusses the ongoing discourses on love that first developed in the 1980s in France as they are articulated through the work of Malek Chebel. It argues that for Chebel ‘love’ contributes to the ongoing negotiation between Islam and the West and of Islam in France/Europe. The article considers his discourse on love within the context of the current debates on French constructions of community and membership and examines how love enga…
Compelling the Muslim Subject: "Memory as Post-Colonial Violence and the Public Performativity of "Secular and Cultural Islam
Transnational conceptions of Islamic community: National and religious subjectivities
Why Critique
This paper examines the stakes in disentangling critique from its Western operation in order to locate a position of political freedom for the critical study of the Islamic tradition. It considers how the question of the critical study of Islam is a question about the political significance of the concept of critique, and the challenge that the study of the Islamic tradition poses to the discriminating operation of Western criticism. It argues th…
Transnational Politics: Recent Accounts of Muslims in France
Book Review| July 01 2010 Transnational Politics: Recent Accounts of Muslims in France Killian, Caitlin, North African Women in France: Gender, Culture, and Identity (Stanford University Press, 2006).Gray, Doris H., Muslim Women on the Move: Moroccan Women and French Women of Moroccan Origin Speak Out (Lexington Books, 2008).Keaton, Trica Danielle, Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion (Indiana Universit…
Love as difference: The politics of love in the thought of Malek Chebel
This article discusses the ongoing discourses on love that first developed in the 1980s in France as they are articulated through the work of Malek Chebel. It argues that for Chebel ‘love’ contributes to the ongoing negotiation between Islam and the West and of Islam in France/Europe. The article considers his discourse on love within the context of the current debates on French constructions of community and membership and examines how love enga…
Love as difference: The politics of love in the thought of Malek Chebel
This article discusses the ongoing discourses on love that first developed in the 1980s in France as they are articulated through the work of Malek Chebel. It argues that for Chebel ‘love’ contributes to the ongoing negotiation between Islam and the West and of Islam in France/Europe. The article considers his discourse on love within the context of the current debates on French constructions of community and membership and examines how love enga…
Compelling the Muslim Subject: "Memory as Post-Colonial Violence and the Public Performativity of "Secular and Cultural Islam
Transnational Politics: Recent Accounts of Muslims in France
Book Review| July 01 2010 Transnational Politics: Recent Accounts of Muslims in France Killian, Caitlin, North African Women in France: Gender, Culture, and Identity (Stanford University Press, 2006).Gray, Doris H., Muslim Women on the Move: Moroccan Women and French Women of Moroccan Origin Speak Out (Lexington Books, 2008).Keaton, Trica Danielle, Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion (Indiana Universit…
Refiguring Translation in Religious Studies
This paper examines how Derrida’s “generalized translation” is taken up as posing the fundamental theoretical question underpinning Mandair’s book. Tracing Mandair’s understanding of translation through Saiko’s concept of co-figuration, this article examines the Kantian origins of this understanding and then details how Derrida departs radically from these origins in his account of the untranslatability of religion. Derrida, by distinguishing gen…
Transnational conceptions of Islamic community: National and religious subjectivities
Why Critique
This paper examines the stakes in disentangling critique from its Western operation in order to locate a position of political freedom for the critical study of the Islamic tradition. It considers how the question of the critical study of Islam is a question about the political significance of the concept of critique, and the challenge that the study of the Islamic tradition poses to the discriminating operation of Western criticism. It argues th…
The Red Thread of Christianity
Mas examines Anidjar's response to Nancy in order to argue against readings that understand Anidjar's treatment of the concept of Christianity as indiscriminately referring to secularism, globalisation, the West, or Westernisation. In Mas's reading, Christianity is simply a conceptual instantiation of the continuity between, of, and from civilisational and imperial power. Mas argues that to understand the discursivity of Christianity as a concept…
Exchanges: With Gil Anidjar
Middle English eschaungen < Anglo-French eschaungier < Vulgar Latin *excambiāre; late 15c., from Old French eschangier "exchange, barter," from Vulgar Latin *excambiare n. (noun) Middle English eschaunge < Anglo-French (Old French eschange), derivative of eschaungier; late 14c., "act of reciprocal giving and receiving," from Anglo-French eschaunge, Old French eschange (Modern French échange), from Late Latin excambium, from excambiare, from Latin…
Textual Riots
What is the Epistemology of a Genocide? Reflection on ReOrient and Critical Muslim Studies
Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Islam (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works)