Hasan Azad
Biographic Data
| ID | 4793120 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hasan Azad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hasan |
| FAMILY NAME | Azad |
| SIGNATURE | AZAD H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Thinking about Islam, Politics and Muslim Identity in a Digital Age
Since digitality emerges from a Western, Eurocentric weltanschauung, it follows that the digital sphere tacitly rejects Islam and Muslims, where Islam and Muslims are the archetypal Other of the West. Digitality is a continuation of Orientalism, or a Eurocentric power/knowledge project of (continued) global domination. Given Eurocentrism’s inherent racism, given digitality’s omnipresence, and given that Islamophobia is the paradigmatic example of…
Woolwich Terror, Surveillance, and the (Im)Possibility of Islamic Reform
In this essay I argue that Muslims across the board have internalized the Western discourse of the need to reform as a type of self-surveillance and as a means of living and being in the world. I examine the transnational Islamic political group Hizb ut-Tahrir's criticisms of British governmental and media-political pressures on Muslims to reform, and the Marrakech Declaration where "hundreds of Muslim scholars and intellectuals from over 120 cou…
Reconstructing the Muslim Self
Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), one of the 20 th century's most influential Muslim thinkers, theorized a radically new understanding of Islamic selfhood. For Iqbal, the self ( khudi ) was marked by an individuality that made it distinct and inherently equipped to overcome colonial incursions. Iqbal put this down to Ibn ‘Arabi's (1165–1240) “Neo-Platonist doctrine of sheep” of wahdat-al-wujud . This article examines the ways in which Iqbal's ideas of …
Woolwich Terror, Surveillance, and the (Im)Possibility of Islamic Reform
In this essay I argue that Muslims across the board have internalized the Western discourse of the need to reform as a type of self-surveillance and as a means of living and being in the world. I examine the transnational Islamic political group Hizb ut-Tahrir's criticisms of British governmental and media-political pressures on Muslims to reform, and the Marrakech Declaration where "hundreds of Muslim scholars and intellectuals from over 120 cou…
Thinking about Islam, Politics and Muslim Identity in a Digital Age
Since digitality emerges from a Western, Eurocentric weltanschauung, it follows that the digital sphere tacitly rejects Islam and Muslims, where Islam and Muslims are the archetypal Other of the West. Digitality is a continuation of Orientalism, or a Eurocentric power/knowledge project of (continued) global domination. Given Eurocentrism’s inherent racism, given digitality’s omnipresence, and given that Islamophobia is the paradigmatic example of…
Reconstructing the Muslim Self
Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), one of the 20 th century's most influential Muslim thinkers, theorized a radically new understanding of Islamic selfhood. For Iqbal, the self ( khudi ) was marked by an individuality that made it distinct and inherently equipped to overcome colonial incursions. Iqbal put this down to Ibn ‘Arabi's (1165–1240) “Neo-Platonist doctrine of sheep” of wahdat-al-wujud . This article examines the ways in which Iqbal's ideas of …
Thinking about Islam, Politics and Muslim Identity in a Digital Age
Since digitality emerges from a Western, Eurocentric weltanschauung, it follows that the digital sphere tacitly rejects Islam and Muslims, where Islam and Muslims are the archetypal Other of the West. Digitality is a continuation of Orientalism, or a Eurocentric power/knowledge project of (continued) global domination. Given Eurocentrism’s inherent racism, given digitality’s omnipresence, and given that Islamophobia is the paradigmatic example of…
Woolwich Terror, Surveillance, and the (Im)Possibility of Islamic Reform
In this essay I argue that Muslims across the board have internalized the Western discourse of the need to reform as a type of self-surveillance and as a means of living and being in the world. I examine the transnational Islamic political group Hizb ut-Tahrir's criticisms of British governmental and media-political pressures on Muslims to reform, and the Marrakech Declaration where "hundreds of Muslim scholars and intellectuals from over 120 cou…
Islam (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)