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(2013) Being a muslim in the world, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
In Chapter 1, I posit the question of what it means to be a Muslim in the world, in the context of the collapsing "Islam and the West" binary. This transition requires the crafting of a new language for coming to terms with Islam, and it no longer matters whether it is in Arabic, Persian, German, or English, as long as that language is in conversation with the emerging, not the disappearing, world. The language of "Islam and the West," as indeed the language of "religion versus secularism," have exhausted themselves, slammed into a cul de sac; and with the decline and implosion of "the West," the emerging diction of Muslims must flower into its own universality, a universality embedded in the global context of our worldliness.
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Dabashi, H. (2013). But there is neither East nor West, in Being a muslim in the world, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 7-18.
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