“I Want to Love Islam, I Really Do. But…”
Islamophilic Classrooms in Islamophobic Times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17833171 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nermeen Mouftah (0000-0002-1406-4262, Butler University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 55-62 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2689-9132 • E-ISSN: 2689-9132 |
| Publisher | Atla (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.31046/wabashcenter.v1i2.1716 |
| OpenAlex | W3016555004 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
This essay reflects on a critical incident that occurred during a seminar discussion about the age of Aishah at the time of her marriage to the prophet Muhammed. I take students’ discomfort with the material and their expression of emotions – especially their desire to love Islam – as an opening to think about the opportunities and challenges of working with students’ emotions in the classroom. I begin by problematizing love (or the want of it) as an Islamophilic response to students’ awareness of the dangers of Islamophobia. I then go on to entertain the possibility of embracing love as a ‘productive’ emotion that offers insights into the study of Islam and Muslims. While I caution against the traps of Islamophilia, I take love as an important and perhaps overlooked dimension of pedagogy. This is one of three essays published together in a special topic section of this journal on critical incidents in the classroom
Islamophobia · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Education and Islamic Studies · Jewish Identity and Society
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |