Murad Idris
Biographic Data
| ID | 4378144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Murad Idris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Murad |
| FAMILY NAME | Idris |
| SIGNATURE | IDRIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9491-8482 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Political theologies of Christian missionaries, European colonialism, and postcolonial resistance
This review supplements William Bain’s Political Theology of International Order by sketching out two historical threads that are inseparable from the histories of European thought and order that occupy the book. There are gestures toward both strands along the margins of Bain’s account, in a few observations and footnotes. They also have important implications for the place of political theological difference in this story and for the status of …
The Location of Anticolonialism; or, Al-Afghānī, Qāsim Amīn, and Sayyid Quṭb at the Peripheries
Recent decades have seen a turn toward colonialism and anticolonial thought in the discipline of political theory. This turn has done the crucial work of bringing questions of dispossession, racialization, and the critical imaginaries of marginalized bodies of thought into the mainstream of the discipline. The expansion, however, has been marked by a tendency to typecast the archive of anticolonial thought with a handful of figures. This article …
Islam Out of History
The definition of Islam as submission, the claim that Islam needs a Luther, and the desire to identify jihād with private and spiritual struggle, all reflect a series of compulsions and elisions. The three idioms are fundamental to how Islam has been constituted in language as a subject and as a problem. They each also have forgotten genealogies. This article outlines these genealogies and their intersection through the politics of translating Is…
Rawls, Genealogy, History
The Kazanistan Papers
InThe Law of Peoples(1999), John Rawls invented a fictional Muslim state that he called Kazanistan. The genealogy of Kazanistan I offer here is the first examination of Islam in Rawls’s papers. It contributes to a critical body of work about the Muslim Question and how Euro-American thinkers construct Islam. In recent years, theorists have turned to Rawls’s papers. The archival turn, however, has neglected the last phase of Rawls’s career and his…
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory provides an entry point into this burgeoning field by both synthesizing and challenging the terms that motivate it. The handbook demonstrates how mainstream political theory can and must be enriched through attention to genuinely global, rather than parochially Euro-American, contributions to political thinking. Entries emphasize exploration of substantive questions about political life—ranging …
Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory
Peace
Response to Jennifer Pitts’s review of War for Peace
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Islam, Rawls, and the Disciplinary Limits of Late Twentieth-Century Liberal Philosophy
This article tells the archival story of how Rawls invented a hypothetical Muslim state that he called “Kazanistan.” It examines drafts of The Law of Peoples from 1992 to 1998, Rawls's notes, his personal correspondence, and the sources preserved in his archives. I track Rawls's gradual interest in Islam, which resulted in his invention of Kazanistan during the final revisions, in March 1998. Contrary to the aesthetics of rigor and simplicity in …
The Politics of What Is Islam
This essay analyzes the role of politics and power in Shahab Ahmed's What Is Islam? It is framed around three questions: (1) What kind of question is “What is Islam?”—or rather, for whom is this a question, and from which spaces and out of which times does it arise? (2) Who is the Muslim subject foregrounded in this book, and what are this Muslim's political and theological commitments? (3) What relations of power are embedded in the elevation of…
Meritocracy, Aristocracy, and “Literati Democracy” in Chinese Imperial History
This chapter focuses on Qian Mu’s theory of “literati democracy” and related claims that the selection of literati officials in imperial China was “meritocratic.” By focusing on China’s early Middle Ages, this chapter shows, first, that before the implementation of civil service examinations in the seventh century, “meritocracy” already was a ruling principle of medieval recruitment systems; and second, that the meritocratic nature of Qian Mu’s l…
War for Peace
Peace is the elimination of war, but peace also authorizes war. We are informed today that this universal ideal can only be secured by the wars that it eliminates. The paradoxical position of peace—opposed to war, authorizing war—is encapsulated by the claim that “war is for the sake of peace.” War for Peace is a genealogy of the political theoretic logics and morals of “peace.” It examines peace in political theory, as an ideal that authorizes w…
Epilogue
The epilogue to this genealogy of peace returns to the parasitical, provincial, and polemical structures discussed throughout the book. It highlights some of their major continuities and transformations. In the parasitical structure, the persistent insinuates of peace transform, while other insinuates disappear; both developments produce ripples within peace. The provincial structure tracks how peace is tethered to certain aesthetics, entities, a…
Political Theory and the Politics of Comparison
Producing Islamic philosophy
In recent decades, the trope that classical Muslim thinkers anticipated or influenced modern European thought has provided an easy endorsement of their contemporary relevance. This article studies how Arab editors and intellectuals, from 1882 to 1947, understood the twelfth-century Andalusian philosopher Ibn Ṭufayl, and Arabo-Islamic philosophy generally. This modern generation of Arab scholars also attached significance to classical Arabic texts…
Ibn Ṭufayl’s Critique of Politics
Political Theory and the Politics of Comparison
Islam, Rawls, and the Disciplinary Limits of Late Twentieth-Century Liberal Philosophy
This article tells the archival story of how Rawls invented a hypothetical Muslim state that he called “Kazanistan.” It examines drafts of The Law of Peoples from 1992 to 1998, Rawls's notes, his personal correspondence, and the sources preserved in his archives. I track Rawls's gradual interest in Islam, which resulted in his invention of Kazanistan during the final revisions, in March 1998. Contrary to the aesthetics of rigor and simplicity in …
The Kazanistan Papers
InThe Law of Peoples(1999), John Rawls invented a fictional Muslim state that he called Kazanistan. The genealogy of Kazanistan I offer here is the first examination of Islam in Rawls’s papers. It contributes to a critical body of work about the Muslim Question and how Euro-American thinkers construct Islam. In recent years, theorists have turned to Rawls’s papers. The archival turn, however, has neglected the last phase of Rawls’s career and his…
Producing Islamic philosophy
In recent decades, the trope that classical Muslim thinkers anticipated or influenced modern European thought has provided an easy endorsement of their contemporary relevance. This article studies how Arab editors and intellectuals, from 1882 to 1947, understood the twelfth-century Andalusian philosopher Ibn Ṭufayl, and Arabo-Islamic philosophy generally. This modern generation of Arab scholars also attached significance to classical Arabic texts…
Response to Jennifer Pitts’s review of War for Peace
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
The Politics of What Is Islam
This essay analyzes the role of politics and power in Shahab Ahmed's What Is Islam? It is framed around three questions: (1) What kind of question is “What is Islam?”—or rather, for whom is this a question, and from which spaces and out of which times does it arise? (2) Who is the Muslim subject foregrounded in this book, and what are this Muslim's political and theological commitments? (3) What relations of power are embedded in the elevation of…
Ibn Ṭufayl’s Critique of Politics
Political Theory and the Politics of Comparison
Producing Islamic philosophy
In recent decades, the trope that classical Muslim thinkers anticipated or influenced modern European thought has provided an easy endorsement of their contemporary relevance. This article studies how Arab editors and intellectuals, from 1882 to 1947, understood the twelfth-century Andalusian philosopher Ibn Ṭufayl, and Arabo-Islamic philosophy generally. This modern generation of Arab scholars also attached significance to classical Arabic texts…
War for Peace
Peace is the elimination of war, but peace also authorizes war. We are informed today that this universal ideal can only be secured by the wars that it eliminates. The paradoxical position of peace—opposed to war, authorizing war—is encapsulated by the claim that “war is for the sake of peace.” War for Peace is a genealogy of the political theoretic logics and morals of “peace.” It examines peace in political theory, as an ideal that authorizes w…
Epilogue
The epilogue to this genealogy of peace returns to the parasitical, provincial, and polemical structures discussed throughout the book. It highlights some of their major continuities and transformations. In the parasitical structure, the persistent insinuates of peace transform, while other insinuates disappear; both developments produce ripples within peace. The provincial structure tracks how peace is tethered to certain aesthetics, entities, a…
Meritocracy, Aristocracy, and “Literati Democracy” in Chinese Imperial History
This chapter focuses on Qian Mu’s theory of “literati democracy” and related claims that the selection of literati officials in imperial China was “meritocratic.” By focusing on China’s early Middle Ages, this chapter shows, first, that before the implementation of civil service examinations in the seventh century, “meritocracy” already was a ruling principle of medieval recruitment systems; and second, that the meritocratic nature of Qian Mu’s l…
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory provides an entry point into this burgeoning field by both synthesizing and challenging the terms that motivate it. The handbook demonstrates how mainstream political theory can and must be enriched through attention to genuinely global, rather than parochially Euro-American, contributions to political thinking. Entries emphasize exploration of substantive questions about political life—ranging …
Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory
Peace
Response to Jennifer Pitts’s review of War for Peace
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
Islam, Rawls, and the Disciplinary Limits of Late Twentieth-Century Liberal Philosophy
This article tells the archival story of how Rawls invented a hypothetical Muslim state that he called “Kazanistan.” It examines drafts of The Law of Peoples from 1992 to 1998, Rawls's notes, his personal correspondence, and the sources preserved in his archives. I track Rawls's gradual interest in Islam, which resulted in his invention of Kazanistan during the final revisions, in March 1998. Contrary to the aesthetics of rigor and simplicity in …
The Politics of What Is Islam
This essay analyzes the role of politics and power in Shahab Ahmed's What Is Islam? It is framed around three questions: (1) What kind of question is “What is Islam?”—or rather, for whom is this a question, and from which spaces and out of which times does it arise? (2) Who is the Muslim subject foregrounded in this book, and what are this Muslim's political and theological commitments? (3) What relations of power are embedded in the elevation of…
Islam Out of History
The definition of Islam as submission, the claim that Islam needs a Luther, and the desire to identify jihād with private and spiritual struggle, all reflect a series of compulsions and elisions. The three idioms are fundamental to how Islam has been constituted in language as a subject and as a problem. They each also have forgotten genealogies. This article outlines these genealogies and their intersection through the politics of translating Is…
Rawls, Genealogy, History
The Kazanistan Papers
InThe Law of Peoples(1999), John Rawls invented a fictional Muslim state that he called Kazanistan. The genealogy of Kazanistan I offer here is the first examination of Islam in Rawls’s papers. It contributes to a critical body of work about the Muslim Question and how Euro-American thinkers construct Islam. In recent years, theorists have turned to Rawls’s papers. The archival turn, however, has neglected the last phase of Rawls’s career and his…
The Location of Anticolonialism; or, Al-Afghānī, Qāsim Amīn, and Sayyid Quṭb at the Peripheries
Recent decades have seen a turn toward colonialism and anticolonial thought in the discipline of political theory. This turn has done the crucial work of bringing questions of dispossession, racialization, and the critical imaginaries of marginalized bodies of thought into the mainstream of the discipline. The expansion, however, has been marked by a tendency to typecast the archive of anticolonial thought with a handful of figures. This article …
Political theologies of Christian missionaries, European colonialism, and postcolonial resistance
This review supplements William Bain’s Political Theology of International Order by sketching out two historical threads that are inseparable from the histories of European thought and order that occupy the book. There are gestures toward both strands along the margins of Bain’s account, in a few observations and footnotes. They also have important implications for the place of political theological difference in this story and for the status of …
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