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Interrogating Muslims

The Liberal-Secular Matrix of Integration

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvSchirin Amir-Moazami,Kambiz Ghaneabassiri

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This book interrogates the patterns and discursive structures that have generated the seeming urgency of Muslims’ integration. Focusing on Germany, it problematizes the grounds on which politics of integration are justified and reasoned upon, and thereby investigates divergent operations of power vis-à-vis Muslims and Islam in a formally liberal-secular society.The integration paradigm in Germany has been predicated on an imperial knowledge regime, in which Islam figures as the external friend or enemy of an imagined Christian secular. This book analyzes three kinds of integration practices as symptomatic sites for the multifaceted dimensions of power in this paradigm: the scientific measurement of Muslims’ degrees of integration which are correlated with their degrees of religiosity; the politics of recognition promoted by state-organized dialogue with Muslims; and the threat of sanction, found in the regulations of citizenship and explicitly in citizenship tests.Centrally, the book argues that the paradigm of integration navigates between universalist claims and particularistic—racial and religious—re-enactments of a secular nation-state framework at moments in which this very framework is crumbling.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-02-22
Mått154 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt320 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieIslam of the Global West
Antal sidor208
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350266414

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Genealogies of Integration and Islampolitik 2. Integration and the emergence of a “Muslim Question”3. Measuring Integration: Governing through Knowledge 4. Dialogue with Muslims: Governing through Recognition 5. Blood, Race, Religion: Governing through Discipline Conclusion References Notes Index

Well-written, perceptive, and un-flinching in its analysis, Schirin Amir-Moazami’s Interrogating Muslims is an important and timely intervention into the conversations and contestations around the Muslim Question in Germany. Amir-Moazami shows with rare clarity that we should think of ‘integration’ less as the incontrovertible good in the contested terrain of majority-minority relations and more as a crucial element in the governance of Muslim minorities—and in the identity formation of the majority. Through the lens of the Muslim Question, what comes into focus here is in fact the question of Germany’s liberal identity itself.