Youshaa Patel: How to Think about Muslim Difference: Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS)- Oct 16,2023
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Youshaa Patel, How to Think about Muslim Difference. Centre for the Study of Islam. Online Monday Majlis on the 16th of October Abstract Drawing on his recently published book (The Muslim Difference, Yale 2022), Youshaa Patel explores the vexing religious discourse of tashabbuh—Muslim imitation of others—a discourse that enjoined ordinary believers to embody and display their religious difference in public life, and was as crucial to the construction of Muslim identity and alterity during Islam's formative period as it is today. This lecture situates this discourse on Muslim difference within Islamic scripture and tradition, casting new light on contemporary debates in the West over visible expressions of Islam, from headscarves and beards to minarets and mosques.Biography:
Youshaa Patel is associate professor of Religious Studies at Lafayette College (Easton, PA USA), and author of The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present (Yale University Press 2022). His scholarship explores Islamic scripture and tradition, with a focus on how Islam has shaped—and been shaped—by Muslim interfaith encounters in the Middle East and beyond. His work has been supported by grants from Mellon, Fulbright, and the American Institute of Yemeni Studies, and includes extended research stays in India, Qatar, Yemen, Jordan, and Syria where he studied the Islamic tradition with several of its modern-day custodians. Professor Patel is currently the Abdul Aziz Al-Mutawa visiting fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, an independent centre of the University of Oxford.Amazon:The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present -Youshaa Patel
How did Muslims across time and place define the line between themselves and their neighbors? Youshaa Patel explores why the Prophet Muhammad first advised his followers to emulate Christians and Jews, but then allegedly reversed course, urging them to “be different!” He details how subsequent generations of Muslim scholars canonized the Prophet’s admonition into an influential doctrine against imitation that enjoined ordinary believers to embody and display their religious difference in public life.
Tracing this Islamic discourse from its origins in Arabia to Mamluk and Ottoman Damascus, colonial Egypt, and beyond, this sweeping intellectual and social history offers a panoramic view of Muslim identity, revealing unexpected intersections between religion and other markers of difference across ethnicity, gender, and status. Patel illustrates that contemporary debates in the West over visible expressions of Islam, from headscarves and beards to minarets and mosques, are just the latest iterations in a long history of how small differences have defined Muslim interreligious encounters.
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