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Tectum Verlag, 2019
Die Wiederkehr der Götter in die Arena nationalstaatlicher und internationaler Politik hat Religi... more Die Wiederkehr der Götter in die Arena nationalstaatlicher und internationaler Politik hat Religion nicht nur zu einem gesellschaftspolitisch relevanten und weltpolitisch brisanten, sondern auch zu einem politikwissenschaftlich wichtigen Untersuchungsgegenstand werden lassen. Doch wie hat die Disziplin der Politischen Theorie auf solch eine „Revitalisierung“ (Jürgen Habermas) der Religion reagiert und mit welchen politiktheoretischen Konsequenzen?
Auch wenn politiktheoretische Antworten auf die Religionsfrage konzeptionell unterschiedlich ausfallen, haben diese Auseinandersetzungen auf der Basis eines rein europäischen Erfahrungsraums stattgefunden. Konsequenterweise ist der Blick jenseits des Eurozentrismus ausgeblieben. Unter Verwendung postkolonialer Wissensproduktion werden kolonialhistorische und kolonialpolitische Erfahrungsräume eröffnet, um hierdurch liberaltheoretische Erkenntnisse hinsichtlich Säkularismus, Religion und dem Verhältnis von Religion und Politik zu verkomplizieren.
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ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies, 2020
Departing from the premise that the Qur’an has been imagined as a dangerous, almost subject-like ... more Departing from the premise that the Qur’an has been imagined as a dangerous, almost subject-like text in the long tradition of the Eurocentric-Orientalist order, this contribution traces how Germany’s Islam Conference has attempted to govern this supposedly dangerous text by disciplining its readers and policing its interpretations particularly regarding gender justice and equality. In doing so we argue that the policing of the Qur’an is an important site of political interventions and as a technology of power whereby Muslims in contemporary Germany are problematised as deficient and archaic readers. Moreover, policing the Qur’an as a racialised textual governmentality, we argue, is a further point of power application within the larger context of refashioning the racialised figure of the Muslim subject in Germany.
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InterDisciplines, Journal of History and Sociology, 2017
If the emergence of and division between race and religion are epistemic-political effects of Eur... more If the emergence of and division between race and religion are epistemic-political effects of Europe, then we believe it is pertinent to address the persistence and ongoing operation of this disentanglement before assessing whether we are done with Eurocentrism. In turning toward current strands of postcolonial scholarship—which undoubtedly are still valuable and significant beyond conversations limited to students of colonialism—the following contribution addresses the scholarly engagement with race and religion in which the two are disentangled from one another. The purpose, however, is not to validate the interventions made by postcolonial scholars nor to delegitimize the critical terrain that Postcolonial Studies offers. Examining the engagement of race and religion in postcolonial literature, we suggest, offers a window to reflect on the persistence of Eurocentric orders and divisions. While the entangled emergence and operations of race and religion have been addressed by various scholars, within and outside of Postcolonial Studies, strands of postcolonial debate have nevertheless interrogated race and religion on quite isolated terms. The irony, of course, is that the very critical terrain which has claimed to decolonize epistemologies or, more recently, provincialize Europe has been reproducing aspects of Eurocentric orders by separating race and religion in their analytical proceedings.
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Chapters in edited volumes (Peer-Reviewed)
Intersektionalität und Postkolonialität. Kritische feministische Perspektiven auf Politik und Macht, 2021
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Knowledge, Normativity and Power in Academia, Critical Interventions, 2018
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Religious Studies Review, 2019
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Religious Studies Review, 2019
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Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2018
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Ethnic and Racial Studies , 2018
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Religious Studies Review, 2017
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DEMOS MAG ONLINE, 2022
Wie gelingt uns als Gesellschaft eine inklusive Erinnerungskultur, die der postmigrantischen Real... more Wie gelingt uns als Gesellschaft eine inklusive Erinnerungskultur, die der postmigrantischen Realität Rechnung trägt und ihr gerecht wird?
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European Islamophobia Report, 2021
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What could one possibly say about Edward Said’s Orientalism that has not already been uttered in ... more What could one possibly say about Edward Said’s Orientalism that has not already been uttered in one way or the other? Published in 1978, the book has been an important contribution on questions regarding cultural representation, knowledge production as well as governing the colonial and post-colonial Other. In attempting to trace the “infinity of traces” upon himself, Said helped us to understand the very “historical process” constituting both the “Orient” and the “Oriental subject”. The following intervention is concerned with the study of German orientalism and the absence of the nexus of power-knowledge. Specifically, I am troubled by the way the study of German orientalism has emerged and evolved as a terrain of scholarship unreflective of and disentangled from questions of colonial power.
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Gott und Befreiung, 2012
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Postkoloniale Theorie Eine kritische Einführung (2., vollständig überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage), 2015
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Unity and Diversity in Contemporary Muslim Thought, 2017
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Germany’s contemporary Islampolitik (politics of governing Islam and Muslims) has become a topica... more Germany’s contemporary Islampolitik (politics of governing Islam and Muslims) has become a topicality after 9/11. Debated for quite some time, 9/11 seems to have been enabled a new momentum of equating Islam and Muslims with violence, repression, inequality or the destructive collapse of religion and politics. In effect, Islam has become the target of Western European governmental politics intending to integrate, reform, nationalize and regulate the same. In consequence, governmental and non-governmental actors in Germany, as elsewhere in Western Europe, have increased their political interest and activity directed towards its “Muslim problem”, fundamentally aiming at the “institutionalization of a moderate, Euro-friendly Islam” (Haddad and Golson 2008: 487). While analyzing this politics of governing Islam, scholars have predominantly addressed or/and critiqued administrative structures such as legal and institutional settings or constitutional and political arrangements involved in accommodating and refashioning “Islam” in Europe as well as in Germany (Amir-Moazami 2014; Bader 2007; Maussen 2007; Peter 2010; König 2007; Tezcan 2007).
In my presentation, I argue that the conditions of possibility of Germany’s current “Islampolitik” go far beyond 9/11 and the immediacies of our contemporary time. In referring to two fundamentally neglected sites, German Orientalism and German Colonialism, I argue that both should be read as constitutive for “Islampolitik”. The first because of identifying “Islam” as a site of radical difference as well as systematically producing an archive through which “Islam” and “Muslims” can be known; the latter because it reinforced the difference and knowledge proliferating through the epistemological sovereignty of Orientalism. While the first establishes an “intellectual authority”, it the latter in which it is entangled with questions of governing populations, turning “Muslims” into docile subjects, and maintaining (colonial) order. By briefly illustrating the fragmented histories of these two orders (one of knowledge and one of power), I finally argue that the presence of “Islampolitik” in contemporary Germany remains attached to these orders in which Islam not only marks the site of radical difference which has to be made known, but has to be governed and its adherents turned into docile subjects.
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Auch wenn politiktheoretische Antworten auf die Religionsfrage konzeptionell unterschiedlich ausfallen, haben diese Auseinandersetzungen auf der Basis eines rein europäischen Erfahrungsraums stattgefunden. Konsequenterweise ist der Blick jenseits des Eurozentrismus ausgeblieben. Unter Verwendung postkolonialer Wissensproduktion werden kolonialhistorische und kolonialpolitische Erfahrungsräume eröffnet, um hierdurch liberaltheoretische Erkenntnisse hinsichtlich Säkularismus, Religion und dem Verhältnis von Religion und Politik zu verkomplizieren.
In my presentation, I argue that the conditions of possibility of Germany’s current “Islampolitik” go far beyond 9/11 and the immediacies of our contemporary time. In referring to two fundamentally neglected sites, German Orientalism and German Colonialism, I argue that both should be read as constitutive for “Islampolitik”. The first because of identifying “Islam” as a site of radical difference as well as systematically producing an archive through which “Islam” and “Muslims” can be known; the latter because it reinforced the difference and knowledge proliferating through the epistemological sovereignty of Orientalism. While the first establishes an “intellectual authority”, it the latter in which it is entangled with questions of governing populations, turning “Muslims” into docile subjects, and maintaining (colonial) order. By briefly illustrating the fragmented histories of these two orders (one of knowledge and one of power), I finally argue that the presence of “Islampolitik” in contemporary Germany remains attached to these orders in which Islam not only marks the site of radical difference which has to be made known, but has to be governed and its adherents turned into docile subjects.
Auch wenn politiktheoretische Antworten auf die Religionsfrage konzeptionell unterschiedlich ausfallen, haben diese Auseinandersetzungen auf der Basis eines rein europäischen Erfahrungsraums stattgefunden. Konsequenterweise ist der Blick jenseits des Eurozentrismus ausgeblieben. Unter Verwendung postkolonialer Wissensproduktion werden kolonialhistorische und kolonialpolitische Erfahrungsräume eröffnet, um hierdurch liberaltheoretische Erkenntnisse hinsichtlich Säkularismus, Religion und dem Verhältnis von Religion und Politik zu verkomplizieren.
In my presentation, I argue that the conditions of possibility of Germany’s current “Islampolitik” go far beyond 9/11 and the immediacies of our contemporary time. In referring to two fundamentally neglected sites, German Orientalism and German Colonialism, I argue that both should be read as constitutive for “Islampolitik”. The first because of identifying “Islam” as a site of radical difference as well as systematically producing an archive through which “Islam” and “Muslims” can be known; the latter because it reinforced the difference and knowledge proliferating through the epistemological sovereignty of Orientalism. While the first establishes an “intellectual authority”, it the latter in which it is entangled with questions of governing populations, turning “Muslims” into docile subjects, and maintaining (colonial) order. By briefly illustrating the fragmented histories of these two orders (one of knowledge and one of power), I finally argue that the presence of “Islampolitik” in contemporary Germany remains attached to these orders in which Islam not only marks the site of radical difference which has to be made known, but has to be governed and its adherents turned into docile subjects.
Against the background of the 9/11 attacks and the problematization of Muslims and Islam, there has been a proliferation of discourses concerned with the “Qur’an” in Germany’s public life. Imagined as the prime source of orientation for the orientalized and essentialized figure of the “Muslim”, the “Qur’an” and how to read/understand/interpret it has not only become a contested territory but a field of interventions. The contribution traces the problematization of the “Qur’an” through the political operations of the German Islam Conference (DIK). We argue that the “Qur’an” signifies not only a highly political terrain through which the making of an Islam of Germany as well as an ideal German-Muslim subject and citizen is crafted, but how this relies upon—what we call—policing the “Qur’an”, hence, legitimizing and delegitimizing approaches to and readings of the Qur’anic text in order to project “Islam” and “Muslims” into modern times and futures.
In analyzing the uses and deployments of the “Qur’an” in relation to Germany’s contemporary politics of Islam, we not only unravel how “Muslims” are represented as archaic readers, but how this depiction of uncanny readings and readers paves the ground for governmental interventions aimed to transform “Muslims” into active, contextual and reflected readers of the Qur’an.
influenced and conditioned by certain religious forces and configurations. I will problematize the idea of this clear distinction by connecting the recent establishment of Islamic Studies in Germany – and its emphasis on presenting an ‘insider’s’ view of Islam – with the broader socio-political context of Germany. By doing so, I am not just
intending to contest the clear distinction between ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’, but also trying to show how the concept of an ‘insider’s’ view is developed within a secular and modern framing; constructing and shaping a secular-, state-, and democracy-friendly understanding of the Islamic tradition through an ‘insider’s perspective which accommodates itself neatly in configuration of modern power.