Now Turning to Our Tomorrows

Decolonial Futures in the Study of Islam

Bibliographic Data

ID22355376
AuthorsAasif Bulbulia (University of Johannesburg, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume3
Issue1
Publication date2021-06-30
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Decolonising Disciplines (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2664-3308 • E-ISSN: 2664-3405
PublisherUniversity of Pretoria - ESI Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.35293/jdd.v3i2.3642
OpenAlexW4285420987
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

The emergence and growth of the decolonial movement in recent years has had a dramatic impact on universities around the world, inspiring new epistemic, political and ontological shifts across a wide range of disciplines. These shifts are broadly described as forming part of ‘the decolonial turn’ (Maldonado-Torres 2007: 261). As new generations of academics in the Study of Islam prepare to further the project of knowledge production in the context of post-Fallist universities, this paper seeks to address the following questions: What might it mean to decolonise the academic Study of Islam? How might decolonisation be consciously foregrounded as a future trajectory in the Study of Islam? After contextualising the academic study of Islam in South Africa and engaging with some of the major themes and concepts of decolonial scholarship, I review contemporary efforts to affect the decolonial turn in the Study of Islam through the initiation of summer schools and conferences. Applying what Sardar (2010) describes as ‘futures studies’ methodology, I propose ways to propel the decolonial turn as anticipatory intervention, based on an attempt to forecast the possible futures that await in the next five to ten years and beyond

Decolonization · Futures contract · Islam · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Education and Islamic Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Religion, Society, and Development

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