Fazil Moradi
Biographic Data
| ID | 89053 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fazil Moradi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fazil |
| FAMILY NAME | Moradi |
| SIGNATURE | MORADI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9309-7408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Worldwide-ization of Epistemicide
If the eye of the bat is not suited for seeing by day, how can the fountain of the sun be to blame?1 Saʿdi Shirazi (ca, 1209–1291)The modern, colonial, or imperial state’s destruction or domination
In search of decolonised political futures: Engaging Mahmood Mamdani's neither settler nor native
This text offers a brief overview of the Special Issue on Mahmood Mamdani's book, Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (2020), and a reading of the contributions and of Mamdani's plea for the historic importance of epistemological revolution and of learning to imagine a community of survivors. My reading is mediated through an autobiographical critique of political modernity and ongoing state violence. I exp…
Catastrophic Art
This article is a transdisciplinary inquiry into catastrophic art-artworks whose worlds the empires destroyed and brutally deported to the imperial metropoles. At issue is the impossibility of seeing and speaking of catastrophic art, without at the same time speaking of both systems of knowledge and life forms and of the colonial inheritance and epistemicide. The article follows various historical events, such as Léopold Sédar Senghor's encounter…
Borders, Media Crossing and the Politics of Translation: The Gaze from Southern Africa
This book is a continuous migration between a theoretical exercise, constant citations and social critic. It consists of six chapters, a total of 142 pages, with 20 pages of notes, references and a
The Islamic State's Êzîdî Genocide in Iraq: The Sinjār Operations
This paper critically examines the Islamic State's annihilatory violence committed against the Êzîdîs in Iraq since 2014. It argues that the violence is a product of both Êzîdî marginality and the ideology of the Islamic State, which is grounded in its particular neo-historical iteration of Islam. Annihilatory violence is fundamental for the IS to actualize its iteration of the holy Qur'ān, the words and actions of the Islamic prophet, and histor…
Catastrophic Art
This article is a transdisciplinary inquiry into catastrophic art-artworks whose worlds the empires destroyed and brutally deported to the imperial metropoles. At issue is the impossibility of seeing and speaking of catastrophic art, without at the same time speaking of both systems of knowledge and life forms and of the colonial inheritance and epistemicide. The article follows various historical events, such as Léopold Sédar Senghor's encounter…
The Islamic State's Êzîdî Genocide in Iraq: The Sinjār Operations
This paper critically examines the Islamic State's annihilatory violence committed against the Êzîdîs in Iraq since 2014. It argues that the violence is a product of both Êzîdî marginality and the ideology of the Islamic State, which is grounded in its particular neo-historical iteration of Islam. Annihilatory violence is fundamental for the IS to actualize its iteration of the holy Qur'ān, the words and actions of the Islamic prophet, and histor…
The Islamic State's Êzîdî Genocide in Iraq: The Sinjār Operations
This paper critically examines the Islamic State's annihilatory violence committed against the Êzîdîs in Iraq since 2014. It argues that the violence is a product of both Êzîdî marginality and the ideology of the Islamic State, which is grounded in its particular neo-historical iteration of Islam. Annihilatory violence is fundamental for the IS to actualize its iteration of the holy Qur'ān, the words and actions of the Islamic prophet, and histor…
Borders, Media Crossing and the Politics of Translation: The Gaze from Southern Africa
This book is a continuous migration between a theoretical exercise, constant citations and social critic. It consists of six chapters, a total of 142 pages, with 20 pages of notes, references and a
Catastrophic Art
This article is a transdisciplinary inquiry into catastrophic art-artworks whose worlds the empires destroyed and brutally deported to the imperial metropoles. At issue is the impossibility of seeing and speaking of catastrophic art, without at the same time speaking of both systems of knowledge and life forms and of the colonial inheritance and epistemicide. The article follows various historical events, such as Léopold Sédar Senghor's encounter…
In search of decolonised political futures: Engaging Mahmood Mamdani's neither settler nor native
This text offers a brief overview of the Special Issue on Mahmood Mamdani's book, Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (2020), and a reading of the contributions and of Mamdani's plea for the historic importance of epistemological revolution and of learning to imagine a community of survivors. My reading is mediated through an autobiographical critique of political modernity and ongoing state violence. I exp…
Worldwide-ization of Epistemicide
If the eye of the bat is not suited for seeing by day, how can the fountain of the sun be to blame?1 Saʿdi Shirazi (ca, 1209–1291)The modern, colonial, or imperial state’s destruction or domination
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)