Aamir R Mufti
Biographic Data
| ID | 308372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aamir R Mufti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aamir R |
| FAMILY NAME | Mufti |
| SIGNATURE | MUFTI A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Islamic Sciences and Education University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 181 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Grannies of Shaheen Bagh: Hindutva Power and the Poetics of Dissent in Contemporary India
This essay focuses on contemporary India and the rise to near hegemony of “Hindutva power,” which works through both the transformation of the exercise of sovereign power and the inculcation of a distinct habitus, or structure of predispositions, in more and more sectors of society. This Hindu supremacist and nationalist habitus marks a far-reaching transformation not only of democratic political culture but of religious belief and practice as we…
Introduction: The Returns of Fascism
The Returns of Fascism” addresses the emergence of New Right political culture on a global scale, attending to the intersections in US, European, Russian, and Indian New Right movements and their relation to the history of fascisms and late capitalist thought forms, as well as their attack on humanist critique. This special issue argues that the topoi of crisis and catastrophe serve the globalization of the New Right's supremacist and majoritaria…
Constantine Cavafy in the Colony: Hellenism at the Margins of Empire
C. P. Cavafy was a writer of the British Empire whose situation resembles that of other colonial writers and should be examined in that context, as well as in the light of the contradictory logic of Orientalism-Anglicism. In the modern West's interest in the late Hellenistic era, philhellenism and Orientalism become one. Cavafy responds to imperial philhellenism by rejecting its triumphalism and exploring matters of colonial displacement. The emp…
Bricolage Within the Imperial Divide: Introduction to Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi's Jugaad
Jugaad continues Iftikhar and Elizabeth Dadi's extended artistic investigation of informality in the Global South, which arguably constitutes the majority experience of this vast region. Development became a central problematic for Africa and Asia in the wake of political decolonization of the mid twentieth century, encompassing the ambition for formal planning of large-scale infrastructure and state intervention in human development. But this pr…
Forget English!: Orientalisms and World Literatures
World literature advocates have promised to move humanistic study beyond postcolonial theory and antiquated paradigms of national literary traditions. Aamir Mufti scrutinizes these claims and critiques the continuing dominance of English as both a literary language and the undisputed cultural system of global capitalism.
The Predicaments of Postcolonial Thinking
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IIReply to Ananda Abeysekara
IA Response to Talal Asad’s “Reflections on Violence, Law, and Humanitarianism
Part 1: Why I Am Not a Postsecularist
This essay argues that the “postsecular” tendency in contemporary humanities and social sciences relies disproportionately on contemporary political Islam to make its case for a “return of religion.” Furthermore, postsecularism generates a highly misleading view of political Islam as an unmediated and unproblematic return to the tradition of (Sunni) Islam, making it difficult to see that political Islam is in fact a result of the great transforma…
Orientalism and the language of Hindustan
Jonathan Arac, ‘From north Indian vernaculars to a new world philology’ Aamir R. Mufti, ‘Orientalism and the language of Hindustan’ Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, ‘What's Braj got to do with the Hindi–Urdu divide?’ Mehr Afshan Farooqi, ‘ Āb‐e gum , or “Disappeared Water” as a metaphor for language, location, and loss This cluster of papers carries forward Critical Quarterly's emphasis on language in society and history. They offer incisive, innovative pe…
Orientalism and the Institution of World Literatures
Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture
Fanatics in Europa
Research Article| February 01 2007 Fanatics in Europa Aamir R. Mufti Aamir R. Mufti Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 17–23. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-024 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Aamir R. Mufti; Fanatics in Europa. boundary 2 1 February 2007; 34 (1): 17–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-024 Download…
Global Comparativism
Towards a Lyric History of India
For Professor C. M. Naim, ihtiraman
Critical Secularism: A Reintroduction for Perilous Times
This special issue of boundary 2 was meant from the start as an engagement with the legacies of Edward Said’s work. It was meant to suggest a number of directions in which the notion of ‘‘secular criticism’’ may now be inflected while remaining true to the enormous critical energies inherent in its appearance in Said’s work. With his sudden passing on September 25, 2003, long feared by those close to him and yet somehow unexpected, this element i…
Reading Jacques Ranciere's 'Ten Theses on Politics': After September 11th
Reading Jacques Rancière’s ‘Ten Theses on Politics’: After September 11th Aamir R. Mufti (bio) With September 11th, we are told, everything changed. This refrain has acquired the numbing force of a cliché in the months since the attack on the World Trade Center. America will never be the same again; irony has become unsustainable; patriotism is in. Responses from the left of a positivist sort — such as in Noam Chomsky’s early remarks that circula…
Cleary: Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel, and Palestine
(2003). Cleary: Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel, and Palestine. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 104-105
The Aura of Authenticity
Social Text - 64 (Volume 18, Number 3), Fall 2000
Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, Secular Criticism, and the Question of Minority Culture
Secularism and Minority: Elements of a Critique
There is a famous scene in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's reputedly philoSemitic play, Nathan the Wise (1778), in which the protagonist, a twelfthcentury Jewish merchant living in Jerusalem, is asked by Saladin, then ruler of Palestine, to declare which of the three great monotheistic religions is the true one. The answer Nathan eventually gives is in the form of a parable that is usually read as being about religious tolerance and coexistence.1 What…
"The Satanic verses and the Cultural Politics of "Islam: A Response to Brennan
I find it both puzzling and sad that my attempt to think through one aspect of the cultural politics of the affair (ST 29) the simultaneously fragmented and realist reception of the novel within what I call the public sphere has been interpreted by Timothy Brennan as a direct attack on his well established authority in Rushdie criticism. A minor irony in this is that I highly admire parts of Brennan's book his reading of Midnight's Children, for …
Reading the Rushdie Affair: An Essay on Islam and Politics
that a mere of the novel has become impossible.3 In this paper, I will examine the novel's interception (and its intervention in) certain political contexts within the post-1979 world. (The conversion, I will argue, does not represent as radical a break with the novel's initial mode of intervention in the politics of as has generally been argued.) The paper is not meant to provide a complete reading of the text in traditional critical terms, nor …
Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, Secular Criticism, and the Question of Minority Culture
Orientalism and the Institution of World Literatures
Global Comparativism
Critical Secularism: A Reintroduction for Perilous Times
This special issue of boundary 2 was meant from the start as an engagement with the legacies of Edward Said’s work. It was meant to suggest a number of directions in which the notion of ‘‘secular criticism’’ may now be inflected while remaining true to the enormous critical energies inherent in its appearance in Said’s work. With his sudden passing on September 25, 2003, long feared by those close to him and yet somehow unexpected, this element i…
The Aura of Authenticity
Social Text - 64 (Volume 18, Number 3), Fall 2000
Towards a Lyric History of India
For Professor C. M. Naim, ihtiraman
Secularism and Minority: Elements of a Critique
There is a famous scene in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's reputedly philoSemitic play, Nathan the Wise (1778), in which the protagonist, a twelfthcentury Jewish merchant living in Jerusalem, is asked by Saladin, then ruler of Palestine, to declare which of the three great monotheistic religions is the true one. The answer Nathan eventually gives is in the form of a parable that is usually read as being about religious tolerance and coexistence.1 What…
Reading the Rushdie Affair: An Essay on Islam and Politics
that a mere of the novel has become impossible.3 In this paper, I will examine the novel's interception (and its intervention in) certain political contexts within the post-1979 world. (The conversion, I will argue, does not represent as radical a break with the novel's initial mode of intervention in the politics of as has generally been argued.) The paper is not meant to provide a complete reading of the text in traditional critical terms, nor …
The Grannies of Shaheen Bagh: Hindutva Power and the Poetics of Dissent in Contemporary India
This essay focuses on contemporary India and the rise to near hegemony of “Hindutva power,” which works through both the transformation of the exercise of sovereign power and the inculcation of a distinct habitus, or structure of predispositions, in more and more sectors of society. This Hindu supremacist and nationalist habitus marks a far-reaching transformation not only of democratic political culture but of religious belief and practice as we…
Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture
Bricolage Within the Imperial Divide: Introduction to Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi's Jugaad
Jugaad continues Iftikhar and Elizabeth Dadi's extended artistic investigation of informality in the Global South, which arguably constitutes the majority experience of this vast region. Development became a central problematic for Africa and Asia in the wake of political decolonization of the mid twentieth century, encompassing the ambition for formal planning of large-scale infrastructure and state intervention in human development. But this pr…
The Predicaments of Postcolonial Thinking
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
IA Response to Talal Asad’s “Reflections on Violence, Law, and Humanitarianism
Fanatics in Europa
Research Article| February 01 2007 Fanatics in Europa Aamir R. Mufti Aamir R. Mufti Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 17–23. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-024 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Aamir R. Mufti; Fanatics in Europa. boundary 2 1 February 2007; 34 (1): 17–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-024 Download…
Reading the Rushdie Affair: An Essay on Islam and Politics
that a mere of the novel has become impossible.3 In this paper, I will examine the novel's interception (and its intervention in) certain political contexts within the post-1979 world. (The conversion, I will argue, does not represent as radical a break with the novel's initial mode of intervention in the politics of as has generally been argued.) The paper is not meant to provide a complete reading of the text in traditional critical terms, nor …
"The Satanic verses and the Cultural Politics of "Islam: A Response to Brennan
I find it both puzzling and sad that my attempt to think through one aspect of the cultural politics of the affair (ST 29) the simultaneously fragmented and realist reception of the novel within what I call the public sphere has been interpreted by Timothy Brennan as a direct attack on his well established authority in Rushdie criticism. A minor irony in this is that I highly admire parts of Brennan's book his reading of Midnight's Children, for …
Secularism and Minority: Elements of a Critique
There is a famous scene in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's reputedly philoSemitic play, Nathan the Wise (1778), in which the protagonist, a twelfthcentury Jewish merchant living in Jerusalem, is asked by Saladin, then ruler of Palestine, to declare which of the three great monotheistic religions is the true one. The answer Nathan eventually gives is in the form of a parable that is usually read as being about religious tolerance and coexistence.1 What…
Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, Secular Criticism, and the Question of Minority Culture
The Aura of Authenticity
Social Text - 64 (Volume 18, Number 3), Fall 2000
Reading Jacques Ranciere's 'Ten Theses on Politics': After September 11th
Reading Jacques Rancière’s ‘Ten Theses on Politics’: After September 11th Aamir R. Mufti (bio) With September 11th, we are told, everything changed. This refrain has acquired the numbing force of a cliché in the months since the attack on the World Trade Center. America will never be the same again; irony has become unsustainable; patriotism is in. Responses from the left of a positivist sort — such as in Noam Chomsky’s early remarks that circula…
Cleary: Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel, and Palestine
(2003). Cleary: Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel, and Palestine. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 104-105
Towards a Lyric History of India
For Professor C. M. Naim, ihtiraman
Critical Secularism: A Reintroduction for Perilous Times
This special issue of boundary 2 was meant from the start as an engagement with the legacies of Edward Said’s work. It was meant to suggest a number of directions in which the notion of ‘‘secular criticism’’ may now be inflected while remaining true to the enormous critical energies inherent in its appearance in Said’s work. With his sudden passing on September 25, 2003, long feared by those close to him and yet somehow unexpected, this element i…
Global Comparativism
Fanatics in Europa
Research Article| February 01 2007 Fanatics in Europa Aamir R. Mufti Aamir R. Mufti Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 17–23. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-024 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Aamir R. Mufti; Fanatics in Europa. boundary 2 1 February 2007; 34 (1): 17–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-024 Download…
Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture
Orientalism and the language of Hindustan
Jonathan Arac, ‘From north Indian vernaculars to a new world philology’ Aamir R. Mufti, ‘Orientalism and the language of Hindustan’ Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, ‘What's Braj got to do with the Hindi–Urdu divide?’ Mehr Afshan Farooqi, ‘ Āb‐e gum , or “Disappeared Water” as a metaphor for language, location, and loss This cluster of papers carries forward Critical Quarterly's emphasis on language in society and history. They offer incisive, innovative pe…
Orientalism and the Institution of World Literatures
Part 1: Why I Am Not a Postsecularist
This essay argues that the “postsecular” tendency in contemporary humanities and social sciences relies disproportionately on contemporary political Islam to make its case for a “return of religion.” Furthermore, postsecularism generates a highly misleading view of political Islam as an unmediated and unproblematic return to the tradition of (Sunni) Islam, making it difficult to see that political Islam is in fact a result of the great transforma…
IA Response to Talal Asad’s “Reflections on Violence, Law, and Humanitarianism
IIReply to Ananda Abeysekara
Forget English!: Orientalisms and World Literatures
World literature advocates have promised to move humanistic study beyond postcolonial theory and antiquated paradigms of national literary traditions. Aamir Mufti scrutinizes these claims and critiques the continuing dominance of English as both a literary language and the undisputed cultural system of global capitalism.
The Predicaments of Postcolonial Thinking
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Bricolage Within the Imperial Divide: Introduction to Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi's Jugaad
Jugaad continues Iftikhar and Elizabeth Dadi's extended artistic investigation of informality in the Global South, which arguably constitutes the majority experience of this vast region. Development became a central problematic for Africa and Asia in the wake of political decolonization of the mid twentieth century, encompassing the ambition for formal planning of large-scale infrastructure and state intervention in human development. But this pr…
Constantine Cavafy in the Colony: Hellenism at the Margins of Empire
C. P. Cavafy was a writer of the British Empire whose situation resembles that of other colonial writers and should be examined in that context, as well as in the light of the contradictory logic of Orientalism-Anglicism. In the modern West's interest in the late Hellenistic era, philhellenism and Orientalism become one. Cavafy responds to imperial philhellenism by rejecting its triumphalism and exploring matters of colonial displacement. The emp…
The Grannies of Shaheen Bagh: Hindutva Power and the Poetics of Dissent in Contemporary India
This essay focuses on contemporary India and the rise to near hegemony of “Hindutva power,” which works through both the transformation of the exercise of sovereign power and the inculcation of a distinct habitus, or structure of predispositions, in more and more sectors of society. This Hindu supremacist and nationalist habitus marks a far-reaching transformation not only of democratic political culture but of religious belief and practice as we…
Introduction: The Returns of Fascism
The Returns of Fascism” addresses the emergence of New Right political culture on a global scale, attending to the intersections in US, European, Russian, and Indian New Right movements and their relation to the history of fascisms and late capitalist thought forms, as well as their attack on humanist critique. This special issue argues that the topoi of crisis and catastrophe serve the globalization of the New Right's supremacist and majoritaria…
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