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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

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“Feel-good Orientalism and the Question of Dignity” | A Review Essay on Emily Greble’s Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe

By Dženita Karić & Harun Buljina & Piro Rexhepi  //  February 2, 2023February 2, 2023

Review Essay by Dženita Karić, Harun Buljina, and Piro Rexhepi. Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe by Emily Greble. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 376 pages. $35.00 Agency: everybody has it. But the agency…

Anti-Blackness in the Muslim World: Beyond Apologetics and Orientalism

By Iskander Abbasi  //  October 14, 2020

Introduction There is a color line in the Muslim world. How and why? While there are multiple forms of racism based on notions of color and ethnicity that exist within the Muslim world  – such…

The Philosophical Legacy of Said: Relativism and Positive Resistance

By Emre Kazim  //  December 4, 2018

Baş tacım için … Impact of Said Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) is second to none in terms of its scope and impact upon Area Studies. Indeed, 2018 marks the fortieth anniversary of this monumental text…

Breathing With Others: The “Science of the Breath” in early-modern South Asia

By Patrick J. D’Silva  //  December 21, 2017

“This is the practice of the yogis. It is not the activity of the people of Muhammad, but it is correct.”[1] This line, taken from the margins of a mid-eighteenth century South Asian Persian manuscript…

Fictional Writing as Western Resistance: How Two Writers Challenged Western Orientalist Depictions of the Arab “Other”

By Ida Nitter  //  May 25, 2017May 25, 2017

The publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism in 1978 led to a deluge of writing on Western representations of the Orient. Of the recent scholarship that deals with nineteenth and early twentieth-century Orientalism, most either focus…

“The Invention of Sectarianism in the Modern Middle East”- A Keynote Address by Ussama Makdisi

By Maydan Editors  //  February 27, 2017February 27, 2017

As we promised earlier, Maydan continues to present content from the Sectarianism, Identity and Conflict in Islamic Contexts: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives conference held at George Mason University in April 2016. We hope this series…

Sectarianism, Pre-Modern Islamic History, and the Bequest of Orientalism

By Tariq al-Jamil  //  October 23, 2016October 31, 2016

The study of what has ostensibly come to be known as “sectarianism” owes its epistemological underpinnings to power-laden discourses implicit within Orientalism. While the concept’s dubious origins come as little surprise to us as post-Saidian…

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