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YOUNG SCHOLAR SEMINAR SERIES -9-
"The Political Philosophy of Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad: Dissent, Race, and Gender"
YOUNG SCHOLAR SEMINAR SERIES -9-
"The Political Philosophy of Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad: Dissent, Race, and Gender"
By Walaa Quisay (University of Oxford )
Date: Thursday 22 March 2018
Time: 7 pm
Venue: 10 Maple Street, London, W1T 5HA
Time: 7 pm
Venue: 10 Maple Street, London, W1T 5HA
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Abstract: In the 1990’s, a network of western-born students had culminated their studies in the ‘traditional centres’ of knowledge in the Muslim world. They came back with the intent of transmitting the ‘traditional’ knowledge they attained to the wider Muslim community. From amongst them, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad were increasingly becoming notable religious authorities. To their community of followers and students, they represented a connection to an authentic religious tradition marginalised by modernist voices. Their religious discourse was both highly intellectual and deeply spiritual; at a time when there was a seeming decline in both intellect and spirituality. Unlike the various religious actors that espoused activist tendencies, politics was not at the forefront of their discourse. Still it was not absent. Embedded within the shuyukh’s social critique were guiding political principles. This paper discusses the shuyukh’s political philosophy through three broad themes: activism and dissent against the state in principle - in Muslim majority and minority contexts, race and identity politics, and gender roles and feminism. The paper will highlight how the critique of ‘modernity’ is interlinked and reaffirms notions of authority and stability in the political philosophy of Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad.
Walaa Quisay is a 4th year DPhil student at the University of Oxford in the Faculty of Oriental Studies. She works on the sociology and anthropology of religion. Her thesis looks at the neo-traditionalist critique of modernity and political philosophy. Her case studies are Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, and Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah. She completed her Masters at the University of Exeter where submitted her thesis on ‘The epistemologies of progressive Muslims’. Her BA was at SOAS; there she conducted research on the relationship of Sufi Tariqas to the state in Egypt. She will be a Visiting Research Fellow at Sehir University in 2019.
Actually, I did read it, but thought it meant Hamza Yusuf and Abdal Hakim Murad would be there, plus some probably lefty Muslim woman I had never heard of.
This turned out to be an incoherent woman pointing out that two white middle class heterosexual Muslim male converts had said vaguely racist and sexist things while refusing to state her own position or answer questions properly. The worst talk I have ever attended. @Contentions https://t.co/VKsLiG90Fd— Claire Khaw (@MinimumSt8) 23 March 2018
The room seemed stuffed with philosophy students talking in the insufferable way philosophy students talk. Nothing was stated clearly, no question answered properly. It was feminine mediocrity writ large. I went cos I thought Abdal Hakim Murad was going to be there. @Contentions https://t.co/ngHybP7Hwo— Claire Khaw (@MinimumSt8) 23 March 2018
I was surprised by the turnout for such a frankly incoherent speaker but I guess what sells is when a non-white woman has a go at whitey in a room full of young non-white men prepared to take up the cudgels. One of them said anger (against the white man presumably) is liberating. https://t.co/aNeOwNF3qg— Claire Khaw (@MinimumSt8) 23 March 2018
The most notable feature of the talk was the jargon, introduced presumably to mask the real meaning eg "Looking through a Muslim metaphysical lens", "positional" etc without explanation. What kind of careers will such people have? Why take out a student loan to talk like a jerk? https://t.co/cDvTc9XuYS— Claire Khaw (@MinimumSt8) 23 March 2018
"Cosmological legitimation", "reverse racism", "the uncoupling of religion and politics in the discourse" are words you would know if you are doing some useless degree about nothing at all. https://t.co/Z3GdSbWAa6— Claire Khaw (@MinimumSt8) 23 March 2018
How many students are getting themselves into debt learning nonsense that will be an enduring reminder that people are sheeple and sheeple will believe anything? https://t.co/dTYlSw4hff— Claire Khaw (@MinimumSt8) 23 March 2018
Listening to what passes for political and academic discourse these days, one can only conclude that the Tower of Babel has been built and is about to fall on us any time now. https://t.co/MFPscTEQE1— Claire Khaw (@MinimumSt8) 23 March 2018
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