ISLAM AFTER LIBERALISM FAISAL DEVJI ZAHEER KAZMI (Editors) Islam After Liberalism A A Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Copyright © Faisal Devji, Zaheer Kazmi and the Contributors 2017 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available Faisal Devji and Zaheer Kazmi. Islam After Liberalism. ISBN: 9780190851279 Printed in India on acid-free paper CONTENTS Acknowledgements vii Contributors ix List of Figures xi Introduction Faisal Devji and Zaheer Kazmi 1 ORIGINS 1. Arabic Thought in the Liberal Cage Hussein Omar 17 2. Corrupting Politics Nadia Bou Ali 47 3. Illiberal Islam Faisal Devji 65 DEBATES 4. Postcolonial Prophets: Islam in the Liberal Academy Neguin Yavari 91 5. A New Deal Between Mankind and its Gods Abdennour Bidar 105 6. The Dissonant Politics of Religion, Circulation, and Civility in the Sociology of Islam Armando Salvatore 125 7. Islamic Democracy by Numbers Zaheer Kazmi 149 THE STATE 8. Bourgeois Islam and Muslims without Mosques Carool Kersten 167 9. Islamic Secularism and the Question of Freedom Arshin Adib-Moghaddam 189 10. Militancy, Monarchy and the Struggle to Desacralise Kingship in Arabia Ahmed Dailami 203 v CONTENTS 11. Islamotopia: Revival, Reform, and American Exceptionalism Michael Muhammad Knight 219 RESISTANCE 12. Preliminary Thoughts on Art and Society Sadia Abbas 243 13. The Political Meanings of Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam Edward E. Curtis IV 263 14. P ost-Islamism as Neoliberalisation Peter Mandaville 281 Notes 299 Index 345 vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book has its origins in the ‘Beyond Muslim Liberalism’ workshop held at St Antony’s College, Oxford in March 2014. In addition to our chapter writ- ers, we would like to thank the following workshop participants who gave papers not included in this volume, or acted as discussants and session chairs: Madawi Al-Rasheed, Mohammed Bamyeh, Alastair Crooke, Michael Freeden, Kevin Fogg, and Nilufer Gole. The workshop was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ES/J003115/1) and hosted by the Asian Studies Centre at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Faisal Devji and Zaheer Kazmi vii