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As far too many intellectual histories and theoretical
contributions from the 'global South' remain under-explored, this
volume works towards redressing such imbalance. Experienced
authors, from the regions concerned, along different disciplinary
lines, and with a focus on different historical timeframes, sketch
out their perspectives of envisaged transformations. This includes
specific case studies and reflexive accounts from African, South
Asian, and Middle Eastern contexts. Taking a critical stance on the
ongoing dominance of Eurocentrism in academia, the authors present
their contributions in relation to current decolonial challenges.
Hereby, they consider intellectual, practical and structural
aspects and dimensions, to mark and build their respective
positions. From their particular vantage points of
(trans)disciplinary and transregional engagement, they sketch out
potential pathways for addressing the unfinished business of
conceptual decolonization. The specific individual positionalities
of the contributors, which are shaped by location and regional
perspective as much as in disciplinary, biographical, linguistic,
religious, and other terms, are hereby kept in view. Drawing on
their significant experiences and insights gained in both the
global north and global south, the contributors offer original and
innovative models of engagement and theorizing frames that seek to
restore and critically engage with intellectual practices from
particular regions and transregional contexts in Africa, South
Asia, and the Middle East. This volume builds on a lecture series
held at ZMO in the winter 2019-2020
The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors
that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on
leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics,
radicalization and cooperation, it offers insights into processes
that reshape power structures and the experience of being Muslim.
It makes room for perspectives from the region in an academic world
shaped by scholarship mostly from Europe and America.
One of the marking features of the 1990s democratization in Niger
has been the rise of a variety of Islamic discourses. Laicite has
been among their major preoccupations. For many ulama this
secularism contradicts Niger's religious identity. Three voices are
presented: the Collaborators, the Moderates and the Despisers. Each
group seeks to influence the political and ideological make-up of
the state. Although ulama in general remain critical of the state
ideological transformation, not all of them reject the separation
from religion clause. The Collaborators suggest cooperation between
the religious and the political authorities; the Moderates demand
governance to accommodate people's will; and the Despisers reject
the liberalism that voids religious authority and demand a total
re-islamization. I argue that what is at stake is less the
separation between state and religion as its modality and impact on
religious authority. The targets, tones and justification of the
discourses I explore show the limitations of a democratization
project grounded in laicite. Thus, in place of a secular
democratization, ulama propose a conservative democracy based on
Islam.
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