Seeking the Muslim Gandhi
Asghar Ali Engineer and the Shifting Positions on 11 September 2001 Debates on Islam and Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20488106 |
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| Authors | Farid Esack (1 University of Johannesburg), Ashraf Kunnummal (0000-0001-9769-2610, 1 University of Johannesburg) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 282-309 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-10 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion and Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1023-0807 • E-ISSN: 1574-3012 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15743012-02603002 |
| OpenAlex | W3082581375 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This paper examines the question of Islam and its relationship to violence in Muslim reformer Asghar Ali Engineer’s pre- and post-11 September 2001 works in response to the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC . We argue that that while his pre-9/11 approach to violence offers a much more historical and systemic account of violence by viewing it as a societal problem involving a number of different agents, the post-9/11 evocation of Gandhi does the opposite. By evoking the figure of Gandhi in a post-9/11 context, Engineer not only addresses the issue of violence as a peculiarly Muslim one but forecloses any possibility to understanding violence as a historically evolving and systemically operating phemonenon. In ignoring this, Engineer finds himself well accommodated within the larger politics of Empire and its dehistoricised, naturalised, and individualised interpretation of Muslim related violence
Archaeology · Criminology · Empire · Evocation · History of religions · Islam · Muslim world · Pentagon · Political science · Politics · Religious violence · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religious studies · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
| Highly cited | No |
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