ReOrient
Volume 8 • Number 1 • Autumn 2023
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ISSN 2055–5601 (Print)
ISSN 2055–561X (Online)
ReOrient
Editor
S. Sayyid, University of Leeds, UK
Associate Editors
AbdoolKarim Vakil, Kings College London, UK
Uzma Jamil, McGill University, Canada
Haroon Bashir, Markfield Institute of Higher Education, UK
Editorial Board
Warren Chin, Kings College London, UK
Yasin Aktay, Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Turkey
Ruth Mas, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Society, Freie Universität, Germany
Shaireen Rasheed, Long Island University, USA
Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina, USA
Barnor Hesse, Northwestern University, USA
Nadia Fadil, KU Leuven, Belgium
Santiago Slabodsky, Hofstra University, USA
Schirin Amir-Moazami, Freie Universität, Germany
SherAli Tareen, Franklin and Marshall College, USA
Book Review Editor
Shvetal Vyas Pare, Flinders University, Australia
International Advisory Board
Talal Asad, City University of New York, USA
Farid Esack, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University, USA
Hatem Bazian, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Brian Klug, St Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford, UK
Asma Lamrabet, Rabita Mohammadia of the Moroccan Ulema, Morocco
Ramon Grosfoguel, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Galip Dalay, Al Sharq Forum, Turkey
Elena Arigita Maza, University of Granada, Spain
Karima Laachir, Australian National University, Australia
Ella Shohat, New York University, USA
NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
ReOrient will publish original articles in English of between 6,000 and 8,000 words (including bibliography). Submissions must not have been published or be under consideration elsewhere. All articles are submitted to blind peer reviewing by at least two referees. Final decisions on publication remain with the Editorial Board.
For full guidelines please go to: http://www.plutojournals.com/reorient-guidelines/
Contents
Articles
Derrida’s Black Accent: Decolonial Deconstruction 4
Barnor Hesse
Şule Yüksel Şenler: An Islamist Vernacular Intellectual 34
Sümeyye Sakarya
A Caliphate of Ideas? Islamic Politics in Dialogue with Contemporary Marxism 57
Daniel Tutt
Islamophobia and Proximities to Whiteness: Organizing Outside of the Brown Muslim Subject 78
Nadiya N. Ali, Lucy El-Sherif, and Hawa Y. Mire
Extracting the Historical Authenticity of Numbers in the Sīra: The Case of Khadījah’s Marriage to the Prophet Muhammad 101
F. Redhwan Karim
Book Reviews
Jeff Eden. God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War 124
Nik Zych, University of Leeds
Tazeen M. Ali. The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam 129
Sophia Steel
Schmid, H., and Sheikhzadegan, A. Exploring Islamic Social Work: Between Community and the Common Good 132
Rahmanara Chowdhury, Markfield Institute of Higher Education
Bakali, N. and Hafez, F. The Rise of Global Islamophobia in the War on Terror: Coloniality, Race and Islam 135
Claudia Radiven