Studying critique locally and pluralistically
A comparative study of critique from a Kuwaiti cultural perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21691697 |
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| Authors | Sara Alnufaishan (0000-0003-2143-509X, Kuwait University, corresponding author), Ali Watfa (0000-0002-3752-8883, Kuwait University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1434-1442 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Teaching in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-2517 • E-ISSN: 1470-1294 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13562517.2025.2487766 |
| OpenAlex | W4409489800 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Within the context of Western academia, critique is often presented as a universal and secular pursuit that emerged out of Enlightenment-era philosophies such as Immanuel Kant, but as Irfan Ahmad points out in his book Religion as Critique, such claims to universality and secularity are misleading and Eurocentric. Ahmad’s genealogy and comparative study of critique opens the conversation to the many ways in which critique exists in localities around the world and how, contrary to popular belief, religion is often a driving force for critique, including Islam. This point of departure article leads us further down the path of comparative critique by describing an Islamic-Kuwaiti mode of critique that we applied to our undergraduate education courses in Kuwait and by reporting the findings and themes that emerged from our collective case study on how critique operates in such classroom spaces
Epistemology · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Philosophy · Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in MENA
| Highly cited | No |
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