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Tag Archives: Colonialism
Muslim Bodies as Postcolonial Migrants: Integration, Racialization, and the Failure to Face Colonial Legacies
Patterns of migration continually evolve and transform as global events take place. Colonialism is responsible for many of these contemporary patterns and established attitudes and power dynamics central to migration. This is crucial to understanding today’s trends and also directs … Continue reading
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Tagged Algeria, Colonialism, France, Islam, migration, modernity, Muslim migrants, racialization
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Long Read: Colonialism, Modernity, Racialization, and African American Muslims
When I first began my research for this blog, I wanted to investigate how it is that black Muslim identity has and continues to inform Islam in America today. Drawing from David Chidster, D.V. Kumar, and Tomoko Masuzawa’s works on … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Islam, Colonialism, gender, Hip Hop, Intersectionality, Islam, longread, modernity, muslim, Racailization, Race, Religion
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The ways in which Islamic mysticism (Sufism) presents as part of the so called ‘Muslim world’, in India during the British Raj.
When the British came to India they made distinctions between the Hindus and Muslims living there based on experiences that the Western world had already had with Muslims, namely the idea of a simple and unified ‘Muslim world’ (Aydin, p.3). … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Muslim World', Archibald Wavell, British, British Raj, Colonialism, Deobandi, fatwa, Gangohi, Hanafi, India, Indian Muslims, Islam, Islamic Mysticism, Muslisms, Mysticism, Spiritual, Sufi, Sufism
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Boko Haram’s British Roots
by Ava Williams In the early 2000s, an anti-western, Muslim organization originated in Nigeria. Formally known as Boko Haram, the terrorist organization establishes themselves against the west through their ideals and the name’s English meaning, ‘western education is a sin.’ Boko Haram … Continue reading
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Tagged Boko Haram, Colonialism, Islam, modernity, Nigeria, Politics
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The Need for Equality Addressed: Muslim Women in India
by Maddy Gale What it means to be a Muslim in India has always been culturally and politically separate from the notion of the modern “Muslim World.” The “Muslim World” is a proposed geopolitical term used to homogenize and categorize … Continue reading
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Tagged Colonialism, family law, gender, Hinduism, Indian Muslims, Islamic Feminism, modernity, nikahnama, women's rights
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The Reorganization of Indian Modernity
The ideals of modernity through a highly Westernized lens forcefully permeated its way through Indian culture, social life, politics, and religion. I will be focusing on the alteration and/or complete loss of countless Islamic religious traditions, and the emergence of … Continue reading
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Tagged Colonialism, Great Britain, Imperialism, India, Islam, language, Religion
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Saving The Bharat Mata: What was at stake for her children?
Can you pinpoint the moments in history that make you who you are? The moments that have created your identity? For Muslims, as well as other religious communities in India such as Hindus and Sikhs, one of these defining and … Continue reading
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Tagged Agency, Bharat Mata, Cartography, Colonialism, Gandhi, Great Britain, Hinduism, Identity, Imperialism, Independence, India, Islam, Jinnah, Mother India, Nehru, Pakistan, Parition, Partition/Independence, Politics, Power, Religion, Representation, South Asia, Two Nation Theory, Visual Representations
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