Critical Muslim geographies through a critical geography of Islamophobia

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ID13007102
AuthorsKawtar Najib (0000-0002-7348-112X, University of Liverpool, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume16
Issue1
Pages190-193
Publication date2024-06-18
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDialogues in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2043-8206 • E-ISSN: 2043-8214
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/20438206241262512
OpenAlexW4399786173
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited17

In this commentary, I focus on James Sidaway's contribution to critical Muslim geographies and his suggestions for moving beyond decoloniality that do not hesitate to take a stand against the current direction of mainstream studies on Islam and Muslims. While I agree with many of his points, I detail three critical thoughts around (i) the idea of integrating terminologies specific to Islam and Muslims into the scholarship of Muslim geographies to transcend existing colonial logics; (ii) the need to give a greater voice to Muslim geographers as Black and feminist geographies have done; and (iii) the difficulty of measuring the Muslim identity of geographers. Drawing on my critical thinking about the geographies of Islamophobia, I highlight how normalized structural practices have led to silencing the voices of even the greatest geographers in human history

Archaeology · Critical geography · Cultural geography · Economic geography · Geography · Human geography · Islam · Islamophobia · Postcolonialism (international relations · Sociology · Gender Studies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philippine History and Culture · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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