POLS 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Innocent Victims, Islamic Philosophy, University Of Tehran
3 Nov 2016
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As critical intellectuals, our role at this moment is to refuse to be intimidated by the so-called majority, to think and write as truthfully as we can in multiple ways, against the grain of the forces. As one such gesture of critical reflection, i want to speak today about islam about its modernity, precisely the modern, politicized islam that george w. bush wants to tell us this crisis is (cid:494)not about. (cid:495) Such a discussion, however, is there to be engaged within the global public sphere, as opposed to our own provincial one, and there is urgency to do so. These scholars have been trained in the west where many are citizens; most live and teach there. Islamism is not a religious discourse, but a political one. It is a debate about modernity, expressed in multiple voices, encompassing varied and conflicting theoretical positions that are meant to have practical, political effects.
