Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 384
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-5381-6507-2 • Hardback • June 2022 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
978-1-5381-6508-9 • eBook • June 2022 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Muneeb Hafiz is former Associate Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University, UK. His research concerns the intersections between race, subjectivity, and ecology in the structures and afterlives of European modernity.
What’s in a Question?
Part 1: The Muslim Questioned
Chapter 1: Distance
Chapter 2: Disclosure
Chapter 3: Secrecy
Part 2: The Muslim Question
Chapter 4: Proximity
Chapter 5: Affirmation
Chapter 6: Publicity
Part 3: The Muslim Questioner
Chapter 7: Refusal
Chapter 8: Transparency
Chapter 9: Otherwise. Or, coordinates for an Other world
Bibliography
Muneeb Hafiz has written a necessary book on Islamophobia, making sense of it in its proper time and place. That is, British Islamophobia is not just about Muslims per se, but about Britain coming to terms with its troubled past and uncertain future.
— Tarek Younis, Middlesex University
Can Muslims Think? is a deeply illuminating account of why Muslim identity has become so significant to the post-empire British imagination about self and other. In the process, Hafiz displays a mastery of philosophical and historical sources and teases out in compelling detail continuities and disjunctures in racial formation. The result is an essential guide for making sense of Islamophobia today as well as for confronting persistent and intertwined logics of racism and colonialism.
— Aziz Rana, Cornell University
Both refreshing and daring in its command of rich but often neglected theoretical repertoires, Can Muslims Think brings a striking freshness to the critique of Islamophobia's rotten hold on Europe’s melancholic psyche. With timely originality, Hafiz places today’s all-consuming Islamophobia squarely within the wider conditions of Europe’s general decline. Hafiz poignantly shows that Europe’s refusal to reconcile itself to a humbled sense of its place in the world not only renders Muslims a fetichised and brutalised object of revanchist fear and alarm, but also stunts the very ability of Europeans who believe themselves to be natives to realise an affirmative, humanist future. At stake in Can Muslims Think is nothing less than our collective ability to live humane lives once spared the violent and now anachronistic delusions of European grandeur, civilisation and cohesiveness.
— Sivamohan Valluvan, University of Warwick