Blogs about: Talal Asad

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Valuable lessons

In the last two weeks there have been some valuable lessons about writing learned around this manor. While this paper may have been suitable for workshop purposes, it was not designed for a graduate j… more →

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Encircling Empire: Report #21—Search and Distort Missions

Maximilian Forte wrote 1 week ago: Encircling Empire Reports is a selection of essays, blog posts, and news reports covering a given ti … more →

Tags: ENCIRCLING EMPIRE, CIA, Venezuela, Libya, AFRICOM, AIC, American Islamic Congress, Ania Loomba, arturo escobar

Encircling Empire: Report #21—Search and Distort Missions — 3 comments

Maximilian Forte wrote 1 week ago: Encircling Empire Reports is a selection of essays, blog posts, and news reports covering a given ti … more →

Tags: ENCIRCLING EMPIRE, AFRICOM, AIC, American Islamic Congress, Ania Loomba, arturo escobar, Bolivia, Boston, Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Tightrope Walking in the Intellectual Circus: The Politics of Piety: the Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2005) by Saba Mahmood

sitareist wrote 1 month ago: A. INTRODUCTION Saba Mahmood explores the complex ways in which the discourses of embodiment, piety, … more →

Tags: Reflection, Anthropology, Philosophy, Review, Theory, Women's and Gender Studies, Foucault, "Islamic Feminism", Modernity

summary of some of talal asad's arguments

sohaib wrote 5 months ago: As early as 1993, [Talal] Asad charted the genealogy of the English term ‘religion’, poi … more →

Tags: South Asia Research, Secularism, Religion, Science, NILE green, state, mary searle-chatterjee

Names, Property, and Other Things Worth Arguing About

JCB wrote 9 months ago: The school’s initials at the campus’s main entrance//Wikipedia The New York Times today … more →

Tags: quick comment, Christianity, Catholicism, Latin America, Power Relations, religion and education

Secularity: A Sketch — 2 comments

christopher wrote 11 months ago: The other day, I used the word ‘secularity’ in a way that I believe followed the ways th … more →

Tags: Politics, religion/church, Secularity, Charles Taylor

Becoming Muslim: Self and God in Egypt — 2 comments

MPeterson wrote 11 months ago: Anthropologists have written of people as Muslim because they grow up enculturated as believers, but … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Islam, Charles Hirschkind, Samuli Schielke, saba mahmood, Amira Mittermaier, jinn

Evropa kundër Islamit: Islami në Evropë II — 1 comment

gentibasha wrote 1 year ago: Talal Asad (vazhdon) II   A është “feja” përbërëse (integral) e këtyre forcave përçarëse? Vësht … more →

Tags: Analize, Featured, SHKRIME, Antropologji, Evropa, Islami ne Evrope

Evropa kundër Islamit: Islami në Evropë I — 5 comments

gentibasha wrote 1 year ago: Talal Asad* I Është banal, por gjithsesi i rëndësishëm, fakti se në demokracitë liberale mjetet e ko … more →

Tags: Analize, Featured, SHKRIME, Antropologji, Islamofobia, Islami ne Evrope

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biqbal wrote 1 year ago: prospective MA thesis abstract. obviously subject to revision, &etc. working to complete a draft … more →

Tags: narcissism past and present, Discourses, academese, Allegory, temporality, de Man, Benjamin, Symbol

we apologise for the inconvenience. — 1 comment

chaosbogey wrote 1 year ago: In one week, a fantastic essay will be published. In two, I turn 25. For all my abundant solipsism, … more →

Tags: book, politics/history, Major Arcana, Slut, Beginnings, Politics, Camus, Palestine, Algeria

The Wish for 9/11: Retrospective Thoughts, Ten Years On — 8 comments

C. Ryan Knight wrote 1 year ago: As though refuting Francis Fukuyama’s claim that the “end of history” has arrived in his essay “L’Es … more →

Tags: Archives, - C. Ryan, Jean Baudrillard, 9/11, elaine scarry, Giorgio Agamben, Amnesty International, Amnesty International Global Ethics Series, state of exception

On Suicide Bombing: Asad on Suicidal Civilization

Tim McGee wrote 1 year ago: In short, in Christian civilization, the gift of life for humanity is possible only through a suicid … more →

Tags: utopia, ethics, Refugees, Violence, Politics, death, Atonement, On Suicide Bombing, Clash of Civilizations?

Haggis, Jane. "White Women and Colonialism: Towards a Non-Recuperative History." — 1 comment

timrdoc wrote 2 years ago: Haggis opens the essay by deeply exploring the historiographical and ethical questions confronting a … more →

Tags: Theories of History, WGS 652 - Fems and Postcolonial Theory, (Post)(de)Colonial Theory, Imperialism, Globalization, Transnationalism, Historiography, Methodology, 19th Century

On the beach at Jumeira — 4 comments

Don Stoll wrote 2 years ago: … more →

Tags: Africa, Tanzania, Development 2, Volunteering, poverty, Al Khalifa Tower, Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian Protests, islamic etiquette

Mandates by (for) the People — 4 comments

Henry M. Schliff wrote 2 years ago: Courtesy of eureferendum.blogspot.com With the votes counted, familiar refrains are reverberating ac … more →

Tags: Washington, democracy, Plato, citizens united

Valuable lessons

Eoin O'Mahony wrote 2 years ago: In the last two weeks there have been some valuable lessons about writing learned around this manor. … more →

Tags: Posts, Workplace, Headspace, Public Sphere, Reading, Religion, thesis, Geography, PhD

Death to the Multi-Cultural Society?

Henry M. Schliff wrote 2 years ago: Begrudgingly courtesy of creepingsharia.wordpress.com The AFP reported this week that multi-cultural … more →

Tags: Islam & The West, sharia law, Islam, Religion & Society, Angela Merkel, Sharron Angle, Tea Party

thinking through urban debris: violence, terror and the state

nandita wrote 2 years ago: [A different version of this paper was presented by anirban and me at the Contesting Development: Id … more →

Tags: ArchiTextures, Capitalism 2, death/violence, politics (im)proper, spaces, Spectacle, totalit/authorit/arianism, Walking in the City, Ahmedabad


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