The second of three special panels hosted as part of the major international conference "The Study of Islam and Muslims in the shadow of the “War on Terror”: Complexity, Reflexivity and Decolonising Methodologies".
The conference was delivered by the Alwaleed Centre, Moray House School of Education and Sport, RACE.Ed and the Centre for Education for Racial Equality Scotland - all at the University of Edinburgh. For the full programme, click
HERE.
Panel Details:
Muslim Academics and the Decolonising Ethos: Complexities, Possibilities and Limitations
Chair: Khadijah Elshayyal (Hamid Bin Khalifa Univeristy/University of Edinburgh)
- Haroon Bashir (Markfield Institute of Higher Education) & Omer Aijazi (Brunel University London): Navigating ‘Islam’ in the Academy: Decoloniality, Muslim Subjectivity, and the Limitations of a Category
- Siti Sarah Muwahidah (University of Edinburgh): Decolonializing “Introduction to Islam” Pedagogy: Reversing the Gaze and Cultivating Intersectionality
- Asim Qureshi (CAGE): The Cardinal Sin of the ‘Bad Muslim’: Refusal to Condemn
- Ibtihal Ramadan (University of Edinburgh): Knowledge Production and Scholarly Engagement: The Predicament of good/bad Muslims in the thrust towards Knowledge Conformity