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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

2 years

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Modi’s India furthering colonial legacy, say historians from South Asia

Ibn Haldun University hosts the 4th International Suleymaniye Symposium to discuss new ideas and approaches concerning the Baburid (Mughal) empire, which ruled much of South Asia from 1526 to 1761.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

3 years

An articulate, categroical, important voice of #Justice with AUTONOMY. JNUSU councillor and Fraternity Movement National Executive Afreen Fatima addresses the Protest March #SharjeelImam #JNU

JNUSU councillor and Fraternity Movement National Executive Afreen...

JNUSU councillor and Fraternity Movement National Executive Afreen Fatima addresses the Protest March #FreeSharjeelImam #MuslimLivesMatter

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

4 years

“What the dissenters in #ShaheenBagh desired was a radical break with the obscenity & ugliness of an unjust power arrangement.” A theoretical series. @aslahtweets Shaheen Bagh is not an event of the past, it is an interrupted future – Part I - Maktoob

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

2 years

Happy 2 share my new essay. Similarity b/w #Israeli & #Hindu Orientalism. Zionist settler nationalism gave 2 options to #Palestinian : accept Zionism & its lordship or leave the country. The same mechanism is at work in #India against #Muslims & others.

Recognizing Hindu Orientalism

This essay proposes Hindu Orientalism as a central category of analysis across disciplines. It begins by demonstrating how the claim to decolonize India is in fact (re/neo)colonial in many ways as ...

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

2 years

It is worse than #Emergency .Lovers of #justice , #freedom must oppose #PFIBan The #terrorism charge is bogus bcz terror by majority is "nationalist." See how world's largest #Hindu democray [sic] is punishing #Muslims for demanding their rights & opposing majoritarian attacks.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

11 months

Happy to share my essay critiquing #Habermas ' position on #Israel - #Gaza_War If my analysis is correct, It is fitting to retitle Habermas’ statement as “Principles of Absurdity”, not “Principles of Solidarity. ” Universal must also be from all.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

2 years

The shameful harrassment against @AfreenFatima136 , her family & father, Javed Mohammed, only shows the power & impact of her activism & ideas! The move to frighten her is nothing else but #UPGovt 's own fear about its rule based on sheer #Terror & rampant #injustice . #Hindutva

The Polis Project

@project_polis

2 years

Here @AfreenFatima136 narrates the illegal arrest of her family members, threats, intimidation, and harassment. She speaks of Muslim homes being targeted, bulldozed and destroyed in Allahabad.

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@IrfanHindustan

4 years

Excited to do this talk " #ShaheenBagh Is Not An Event of the Past, It Is An Interrupted #Future " tomorow 4 @Fraternity_movt , Hyderbad Uni @HydUniv This is 1 way to do #PublicAnthropology from #Anthropology of #event frame #RejectCAA #India #Hindutva #Derrida #Deleuze #Gluckman

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

1 year

This talk by Prof. Brown is day after! A subject taken often as “territory” of sociologist-anthropologist, it will be fascinating 2 see how a scholar of religion/Islam approaches it. Hence looking forward 2 Prof Brown's reflections. #Islam #Hinduism @ibnhalduni @JonathanACBrown

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

2 years

Excited about the conversation led by @kiccovich among writer-poet @anniezaidi ,thinker @Talal_Asad_ & me on how to fashion a moral language in #politics . The catalyst is my essay " #CombatConcepts in #Indian Politics," published in @project_polis Mark 9 June@ 8PM #Delhi time.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

3 years

Glad to say that I have joined d exciting #Sociology dept @ibnhalduni with its rich multilingulalism & student body. Reading Muqaddema first @jmiu_official & later at #JNU (beyond curricula, though), never thought one day I would work at a uni named after the great #IbnKhaldun

Sociology Department IHU / Sosyoloji İbn Haldun

@Sociologyihu

3 years

We were honored that Prof. Dr. Irfan joined us this year and is now teaching various subjects in the department.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

2 years

Glad 2 share new chapter that shows why calling organized violence #riots ,not #pogrom , itself is violent! I describe nationalism as power/knolwedge with #Hindu #Orientalism as its base and to which d label riot belongs. First @project_polis #India

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

1 year

How #gandhi Preached Violence! We must examine (inter)nationlized myth of Gandhi as an icon of non-violence. He indeed preached violence. Lynching of Muslims in India is an extension of Gandhi’s advocacy 4 #violence . #Ambedkar refused to call him Mahatma

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

3 years

Look forward to discuss my book "Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace"with a notable panel #Islam #Kant #Critique #Reason #enlightenment #women #Maududi #Urdu @elainemaisner @OUPAcademic @UNC_Press @sioindia

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

4 years

As Muslim women lead India’s battle for democracy, Bollywood presents them as suicide bombers the Hindu state must save.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

4 years

Let’s note: #ShaheenBagh is voice of the future; it is not over. As a movement alternative to consensus b/w #Congress & #BJP (& rest), & occasional shadow boxing staged among them, it has indeed not started properly. Mark recent #Islamophobia ic judgement of #Himachal #HighCourt

Afreen Fatima

@AfreenFatima136

4 years

The most intriguing lecture on Shaheen Bagh by none other than @IrfanHindustan sahib. I finally got a chance to watch it on Youtube, had missed the live session. Please, please watch it.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

7 months

Excellent reporting! Summary: offense packaged under the pretext of defense -- an old tactic deployed by the unjust power through most of the history.

Fatima Khan

@khanthefatima

7 months

Documentary | Uttarakhand: The Making Of An Exclusive, ‘Hindu-Only’ Devbhoomi Watch:

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

2 years

Good to see it translated to reach the #Arabic audience and for them to know about what is unfolding grotesguely in #India #Hindutva #populism #Islam #democracy . #EthnicDemocracy

TRT عربي

@TRTArabi

2 years

كيف يعمل حزب بهاراتيا جاناتا اليميني في #الهند على تغيير المناهج المدرسية لطمس هُوية المسلمين وتعزيز الإرث الاستعماري؟

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

2 years

Islamophobia as a political project --it is never about so-called ignorance or lack of knowledge about Islam or Muslims -- belongs to the political system of India in league with Western Powers. Hence it is not a matter merely of one, two or three parties. #Islamophobia #India

The Polis Project

@project_polis

2 years

Islamophobia in India is not a partisan issue, it's deeply embedded in the Indian political culture. @IrfanHindustan analyzes how national heroes across ideologies are quick to scapegoat the Indian Muslim population:

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

4 months

On the Result of Indian Elections ------------------------------------- Anyone seriously concerned about the fate of democracy, especially normalization of it in Hindu interests & vocabulary, ought to pause & worry about the result rather than hastily, uncritically celebrate it.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

4 years

Once again, I voice my solidarity -- so should all justice-, peace- & democracy-loving individuals and organizations --for Usmani and each and every political prisoner. #citizenshipamendmentact #AMU #caaprotest #RejectCAA

SupportSharjeelUsmani

@SupportSUsmani

4 years

I join all those who call for the immediate and unconditional release, not only of Usmani, but all others unjustly imprisoned throughout India. - @IrfanHindustan Professor from Max Planck Institute, Germany.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

4 years

Happy to share cover of #ReorientingAnthropology , due4release, Jan2021. "It is a stimulatingly provocative and highly original study” -- David Parkin, OxfordUni. #Ethnography #Fieldwork #Ingold @BerghahnAnthro @news4anthros @culanth @gradeoneirony

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

6 months

The Sunday Rajasthan speech by PM Modi is neither surprising nor incidental; rather, it is central to BJP-RSS' ideology. Packed with utter hate and aimed at manufacturing & instilling anti-Muslim fear, it is littered with abuse & insult against culture & religion of Muslim. Just

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

3 years

Another #Muslim lynched, in #Haryana , by "friends." Will such murders continue? Archive: "since government backs lynchings through silence & inaction, and since #Hindutva has created a war-like mindset among many #Hindus , they will likely continue."

Modi’s polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India

For decades, India’s Hindu and Muslim populations have been at odds, and it comes down to more than just religion.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

11 months

There is little surprising in the morally disappointing statement on #Gaza signed, inter alios, by #Habermas . Rather, it is a logical outcome of his thinking rooted, like his guru Kant’s, in what I call the #European #enlightenment as AN ETHNIC PROJECT.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

11 months

#Habermas , why apply one standard to Germany,quite another to #Israel /Palestine? Why speak of anti-Semitism “in our country”, but fall silent abt Islamophobia in Germany & history of oppression Israel &Western plutocracies hav inflicted on #Palestinians ?

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

4 years

Glad2share my Ted-talk on #Islamophobia , #terrorism , #IR & #anthropology . No Islamophobia widout Domophilia, my new term. I put Trump, Modi, Wilders, LePen & others in one framework. @mpimmg @suchitrav @AdityaMenon22 @RanaAyyub @KhaledBeydoun @kiccovich

Twins Unknown: Islamophobia and Domophilia | Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad |...

Indian anthropologist, Prof. Irfan Ahmad, unveils nexus between Islamophobia and domopholia vis-a-vis global politics and the war on terror. Irfan Ahmad is a...

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

4 years

In enacting Faiz’s poem, #ShaheenBagh activists were not being disloyal 2 #India or faithful 2 #Pakistan ; rather they were scripting obituary of #nationalism as sports/tamāsha on either side of d border, erected by departing colonial warlords. @suchitrav

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@IrfanHindustan

3 years

The colonial myth, upheld by likes of #Nehru , had that #Islam debarred #women from modern education. Now the state in #India is denying this v edu to young #MuslimGirls precisely bcz of their faith. Mark the continuity from colonial to postcolonial.

Muslim girls wearing hijab barred from classes at Indian college

A group of Muslim students at a government college in Karnataka has been forced to sit outside the classroom for weeks.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

2 years

Finished proof-reading my essay “Recognizing #Hindu #Orientalism ” out in @JPoLIdeologies While comments from other reviewers were tough but helpful, one wrote:“I just want to thank the author for writing such an incredibly thought-provoking piece.” C here:

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

4 years

Even amidst d challenge of #Covid_19 , innocent - research students & activists - r being booked for #DelhiPogrom while almost no action against real culprits. This is nothing but maiming justice & subverting truth. Resistance must continue; fear & true democracy don’t go together.

Afreen Fatima

@AfreenFatima136

4 years

Another brilliant and timely essay by @IrfanHindustan Sahib. It's a very important intervention in political narrative being built around anti Muslim violence by state.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

1 year

#Lynching of #Muslims is not a departure from #Gandhi 's so-called #nonviolence but an extension of his advocacy to kill Muslims. See Gandhi's quote @ My full conversation with @jalalayn at link below:

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@IrfanHindustan

2 years

This too will be remembered & not forgotten that how building a #Hindu nation actually means demolishing #Muslim homes like @AfreenFatima136 's and suppressing resistance to the terror regime. To bogus argument of "legality," note that all oppressive, unjust regimes were legal.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

2 years

After so lo..ng, I published an essay in #Urdu ; an alternative genealogy of #critique ( #naqd in #Arabic ) beyond #Greece & modern #West , emanting as it does from #God Himself. It also critiques literary nationalism of #SRFaruqi , #GCNarang & others

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

6 months

Photos from the post-fieldwork dinner with students for ANTH 101: Social-Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction. I took them to #Kaya şehir center, #Istanbul where they did their half-a-day long fieldwork on topics of their own choice or that of their interlocutors. The goal is to

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@IrfanHindustan

3 years

The conjunction of thinking & resistance at its best. Watch Afreen Fatima speak with such calrity & courage. Let's see if the Court sides with justice or meekly okays the brute #Hindu majoritarian position of #Islamophobia . #Hindutva #KarnatakaHijabRow

Why has the headscarf row begun in Indian schools now?

Afreen Fatima, student leader and activist, talks to TRT World about what has led to Muslim students wearing hijab being barred from school in India now. #Hi...

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

9 months

Unjust power can momentarily transform falsehood into a reality but in the long run & ultimately #truth will emerge victorious. We shall never forget the immoral destruction of #BabriMasjid , or, how #Democracy itself becomes destructive! PS: Photo from my 2009 book cover!

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

1 year

In #Bihar , the state I was born & raised in, yesterday #Hindu militants killed a #Muslim on the suspicion of carrying #BEEF / #cow meet. Compare 2 images of lynching from 1857 British & current India. Is #India post-colonial or neocolonial or recolonial?

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@IrfanHindustan

2 years

The Three Musketeers from #Turkey and #India who met first in #Leiden , #Holland reunited at #Sulaimaniya #Istunbul over a decade later. What a get together ! From L to R ⁦⁦ @EABekaroglu ⁩ pol scientist, #anthropologist & ⁦⁦ @IsmailHakkiKadi ⁩ #Ottaman historian

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@IrfanHindustan

2 years

In almost unconditional solidarity with @RanaAyyub for her couragous #journalism and posing ethically and politically correct questions to a regime run on and nurtured by #hate , especially against #Muslims and #Islam . #India #Populism #Hindutva #Justice

Rana Ayyub

@RanaAyyub

2 years

Dear @narendramodi , my timeline has been inundated with threats from those who claim allegiance to you, they claim to be your supporters. Explicit rape and death threats, asking for blood of my family. Should journalists pay the price of bearing witness ? #JournalismIsNotACrime

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Irfan Ahmad

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A bright student of @Sociologyihu who just defended his Master’s thesis writes about violent devaluation of #Palestinian lives resting on Western hierarchy of knowledge & life. #Israel @MaktoobMedia

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

3 years

Talking to @AJEnglish Irfan Ahmad said no democrat shud find it offensive bcz they noted #Talibans fight against foreign powers, critiquing 20years of occupation and bombardment of a poor country in d name of "war on terror. #Afghanistan #India #Hindutva

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@IrfanHindustan

3 years

Apparently a tiny moment, but it is truly a monumental ethical gesture on the part of the guard of @jamiamillia_ Thanks @AfshanKhanSahil for bringing it to public attention

Afshan Khan

@AfshanKhanSahil

3 years

1. Today I went to #jamia for some work. I was sitting alone waiting for my Professor to receive the phone call. Meanwhile, a guard came near me. I thought he'll ask me why I'm here. Contrary to what I thought, he advised me to sit on the bench under the shade of a tree.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

5 years

Wonderful piece! Words impact audience. While ‘hiding’ used for Muslims in d mosque evoke reader’s anger toward Tablighi Jamat, ‘stranded’ used to describe Hindus & Sikhs make reader feel bad about their predicament. @scroll_in @suchitrav @nawazqanungo

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@IrfanHindustan

1 year

With #Islam 's foreignness enshrined in #Indian #anthropology , it is logical that discipline has made massive investment to render it ‘Indic’. There r many ways to do dis 'indigenization' (read #assimilation ). #Syncretism as 1-way traffic is one key tool.

Nationalism and knowledge: Othering and the disciplin(e)ing of anthropology in India

This essay is about how Indian anthropology-sociology has historically theorized Islam and Muslims. In it, I demonstrate how anthropologists’ discourse on Islam and the majoritarian Hindu discourse...

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

1 year

Language may be basic 2 interaction; but latter also creates a lang. There is no lang shared b/w lovely Mohammad & me. We just interact; once he called me arkadaş, friend in #Turkish Thanks Mohammad 4 teaching me. What to do wild #Aristotle ‘s:”O my friends, there is no friend”?

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

8 months

Talal Asad and Mahmood Mamdani giving concluding keynotes at the Symposium organized by ⁦ @ibnhalduni ⁩ & ⁦ @Sociologyihu ⁩ on #palestine #Israel #genocide #ceasefire

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

2 years

In almost 3 hours from now!

The Polis Project

@project_polis

2 years

📢 TODAY! Have you registered for our Space event? We discuss the impact of language in the time of a political and moral crisis with @anniezaidi , @Talal_Asad_ and @IrfanHindustan The session will be moderated by @kiccovich . SET YOUR REMINDER:

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@IrfanHindustan

1 year

Once again, the Intercept story on #ImranKhan shows how Western powers de-democartizae polities that don't toe their line. This #dedemocartization has been long & across continents: my 2012 essay. #democracy Portugese translaton:

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@IrfanHindustan

3 years

Ethically couragous acts of resistance by #Muslim #women against being auctioned by the #Hindu Right. Will the govt act against dose responsible 4 this anti-Muslim patriarchy? Where are defenders of women's cause? #sullideal Please watch this short video.

We are not afraid,we are extremely angry| Afreen Fatima, Ladeeda...

"We are not afraid, we are extremely angry"On 4 July, the Hindu right-wing ecosystem had created an “open-source community-driven project” on GitHub, an app ...

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@IrfanHindustan

2 years

How pathos is transformed into humor and both into hope, listen to @AfreenFatima136 #Hindutva #Islam #India #stateterror نشیمن پر نشیمن اس قدر تعمیر کرتا جا کہ بجلی گرتے گرتے آپ خود بیزار ہو جائے

"They can't break us" | Afreen Fatima on demolition of her house and...

Javed Mohammed, a Muslim activist and Welfare Party of India leader from Allahabad, a few weeks ago, filed a complaint against an anti-Muslim hate speech eve...

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@IrfanHindustan

4 years

Glad 2 share this piece in @MiddleEastEye about how, using #madrasa , media, includ @dwnews & @guardian build & spread #Islamophobia Showing Muslims in only religious term is 1 tool. @cjwerleman @BayoumiMoustafa @betwasharma @IAMCouncil @HartoshSinghBal

How western Islamophobia works in the Global South

International media cite religion as the culprit for a student's beating in Bangladesh, when a host of other factors are at play

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@IrfanHindustan

2 years

A practice begun in #Amsterdam University, continued at #Monash university, I took the class for tea/coffee to mark the conclusion of the course at ⁦ @Sociologyihu ⁩ ⁦ @ibnhalduni ⁩

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@IrfanHindustan

2 years

While decrying violent acts linked to PFI, d pan- #India raid on #PFI is unjust & mockery of #democracy . If even 10% logic of raid is fairly applied, no party will be safe from such crackdown. PFI's only crime seems that it uses an Islamic idiom to pluralize & deepen democracy.

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@IrfanHindustan

4 years

Thanks Sunil sb. Important to note that given the regnant #nationalism , ver few take a #comparative approach 2 analyze practice and #politics of #riots and #pogroms over long temporal frame & across and amongst different nation-states, which I do. :) #2020DelhiPogrom @suchitrav

Sunil

@kulchandrasunil

4 years

@DiscourseDancer @ConradkBarwa The articles of @IrfanHindustan in @project_polis on Delhi pogram, where he argues difference between a riot & pogrom is a eye opener

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2 years

The anti- #Muslims violence in #India is not 'riot' from both sides; it is planned & #Hindu outfits r backed by govt organs. Let me name it what it truly is: a pogrom.

Violence After Violence: The Politics Of Narratives Over The Delhi Pogrom - The Polis Project

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@IrfanHindustan

3 years

Unless the excluded & disempowered fight for and power-holders practice them, words & terms in any #Constitution or document don’t mean much. Indeed, such lofty words as #freedom , #Equality or #Democracy can be pulverized or molested to mean their opposites. #India #Hindutva

The Polis Project

@project_polis

3 years

The Indian constitution claims India is a secular country as yet vilification of the Muslim community has remained a consistent theme across party lines. Those guilty of it include Gandhi and Nehru. @IrfanHindustan explains:

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

5 years

Here is my essay on #2020DelhiPogrom ; a critique of unjust, ethnic nationalized wisdom shared by “liberalsProgressive” too @sardesairajdeep @_YogendraYadav @HartoshSinghBal @ashutosh83B #AshisNandy #PaulBrass @mpimmg

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

4 years

How #bloomsburyindia board okayed lies-propaganda of “Jehadi-Naxal”causing what was a pogrom, not #DelhiRiots2020 Book like #DelhiRiotsUntoldStory a new face of knowledge/power nexus to crush truth, which we must uphold. MyEssay @suchitrav @project_polis

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@IrfanHindustan

2 years

Nearly 50 percent of members in the current Parliament of #India face criminal charges. The question is: Why media or the government call the murder of a #Hindu #Terrorism , but the murder committed by a Hindu simply a crime, at times not even a crime ?

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

2 years

Q&A: Understanding India’s crackdown on Muslim groups

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

8 months

Anthropologists love to anthropologize others. In this talk on 1 February at #sociology dept. @DelhiSchoolOfEC @UnivofDelhi I anthropologize anthropologists themselves. Against the self-congratulatory view of sociology as a "reflexive" discipline, I show

Power/Knowledge in India | Prof. Irfan Ahmad's Talk at Delhi Univer...

@samimasgoralijnu This talk is about how Indian anthropology-sociology has historically theorized Islam and Muslims. In it, Prof. Irfan Ahmad demonstrates h...

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@IrfanHindustan

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I look forward to this salient keynote tomorrow by Charles Hirschkind, a notable voice in anthropology and beyond— part of 3 -day sociology symposium organized by students of ⁦ @Sociologyihu ⁩ ⁦⁦ @ibnhalduni ⁩ #gaza #Palestine #Israel #anthropology #sociology

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@IrfanHindustan

1 year

Here is the conversation with @thinking_muslim about #India , #Muslim & ethnic #Hindu nation. Woven into it are thoughts about what #Fascism is, links b/w #Terror & #democracy , #lynching , #Violence in #Gandhi 's thought, #Partition , #Hindutva & more.

Is a Genocide of Muslims Underway in Modi's India? with Dr Irfan Ahmad

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

5 months

A sharp mind — Sharjeel Usmani is a valuable addition to the ethically grounded team of the Polis Project and its remarkable work.

The Polis Project

@project_polis

5 months

An institution is a reflection of its team and so we are very thrilled to introduce you to Sharjeel Usmani @SharjeelUsmani Sharjeel is a researcher with The Polis Project and we are excited to have him on board! Join us in welcoming him! 📢📣🙌🏽✊🏽

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

3 years

"unlike a riot the key feature of which is its convulsive nature, what happened in Delhi was purposive and in no way spontaneous" “riot” in India has a peculiar meaning. Outside India, a riot refers to unplanned violence by civilians against the state or its symbols or allies."

The Polis Project

@project_polis

3 years

The violence in Delhi last year didn't end with the anti-Muslim pogrom that it was. It continued in the politics of being termed a riot, an old tactic of flattening the power inequality between the country’s Hindus and Muslims. @IrfanHindustan writes:

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

4 years

Good to finally hold n touch #anthropology & #ethnography are not equivalent. Planned in #Melbourne , written in #goettingen edited in #NewYork , shipped from #uk , my copies arrived. @BerghahnAnthro @mpimmg @gradeoneirony More

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

11 months

Yes, contra Habermas’, we need philosophy with a conscience !

Outlook India

@Outlookindia

11 months

#OutlookMagazine | What the world needs is not philosophers of truth-molesting consensus, but philosophers with a conscience, writes Irfan Ahmad. #Gaza #Palestine Read more:

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

1 year

“Seek knowledge even if it is in #China “ in 15th century green mosque in #Bursa . Part of @ibnhalduni #history trip led by Prof suraija roschan-nadira erika faroqhi. Such a learning trip for me! @mfatihcalisir

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

1 year

Photos of my office door and corridors where I spend some time these days even as/ because the latter is mostly quite!

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

1 year

Glad 2 share new interview. Muslims can't counter #Islamophobia bcz they didn't create it. After #Baldwin , let me say this: "What Islamophobes have to do is find out in their own hearts & minds why it was necessary 2 have Islamophobia in the first place."

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

1 year

Soon to come, watch out this space! Making anthropology /sociology speak to IR/ political theory (& other fields) and vice versa.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

3 years

Happy to share this essay that offers a new lens to understand #Politics in #India ⁦ @jkeaneSDN ⁩

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

5 months

Those who cheer the release of Arvind #Kejriwal as victory of democracy should pause & question the consensus --across parties & left-right divide -- about the brazen ban on an entire political party, Popular Front of #India ( #PFI ), and its leaders thrown into #jail . Why no

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

4 years

Done with proof-reading; book out in January. Click d link to know more about the book, including my friend cat, duly acknowledged (wd her photo) in book. @berghahnbooks @BerghahnAnthro #Anthropology #Ethnography #Fieldwork #Ingold

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

2 years

And Allah listens to mothers' prayer & sigh of d oppressed. #freedom ,ISA! #SharjeelImam :“Ammi, if we educated ones don't protest against an unjust law, who would stand up for poor Muslims?” Ammi:“Go, I place you in Allah’s custody. Only he knows best.”

And Ammi weeps for Sharjeel Imam

Jailed for ‘conspiring’ to foment the 2020 Delhi riots, based on a 40-second clip from his 40-minute speech, he has weekly video calls with his mother, who dreams of the day her son would return home

www.mid-day.com

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

3 years

Happy 2 share d news that the book, The Nation Form in the Global Age: #Ethnographic Perspectives, I edited with Jie Kang is out. It is open-access, free to download. #Anthropology #nationalism #Religion #China #India @mpimmg @PalgraveSoc @AmericanAnthro

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

6 months

This is how "moral theorist" Michael Walzer irrationally and shamelessly justifies the genocidal onslaught against Palestinians. Walzer's is an example of how morality can descend to such a level that it ceases to be morality at all and morphs into raw, cold, oppressive

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

2 years

Photos from my class ANTH 101| SocialCultural #anthropology :An Introduction| for the week on Anthropological #methods & taught at @Sociologyihu Site: Kayabaşı, #Ba şakşehir Students from diverse backgrounds & interests explore multicultural #İstanbul #Ethnography #Fieldwork

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

2 years

In the digital era, or after #ZygmuntBauman , liquid #modernity , to hold aomething solid & physical seems like an event, even heroic. My sister had bought a copy of @frontlinepbs #India #Hindutva #Islam #Sociology @vaishnaroy @ibnhalduni @Sociologyihu

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

4 years

“If @ShashiTharoor or #ABVajpaee is a liberal - many now say that @LKAdvaniBJP is also liberal –then, we are not talking about liberalism.” My reflection @MaktoobMedia on 1 anniv of anti @CAA movement. @Shaheenbaghoff1 @aslahtweets @jaseempp #nehru

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

11 months

What #Gaza is bravely displaying is true Ṣabr. Not just patience; it is steadfastness, fortitude & endurance amidst trial & hardship. In Qurʾān, it means to uphold truth resolutely and face the consequences whatever they might be.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

7 months

Happy to share the YouTube link to the talk "Rethinking Orientalism In The Indian Context," I gave in February at the Faculty of Social Sciences Conference Hall, #Aligarh Muslim University @AMUofficialPRO , #India . It is derived mainly from the essay "Recognizing #Hindu

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

11 months

My new comparative essay! The question we face: is the world listening to humans in the #Gaza concentration camp, who, subjugated yet in love with justice & dignity, have spoken? Importantly, will the world listen? And if it will, when & how? @ibnhalduni

If Warsaw ghetto in 1943 enacted an uprising and not terrorism, so did Gaza in 2023

Jews who resisted were not terrorists. Like Palestinians today, they were terrorised by the Nazi occupation. Just as many Palestinians live in fear, Jews in the Warsaw ghetto endured degradation and...

www.trtworld.com

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

8 months

Photos from my talk " #Hindu #Orientalism as Power/Knowledge Matrix" @AMUofficialPRO Thanks2 Profs Asmer Beg & Parvez Alam& above all 2 critical students of @theamupage fighting 4 a truthful, justice-based #democracy to come & I was lucky 2 interact with.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

3 years

Anti-Muslim violence in #Hindu processions is not due to electoral goal alone & #BJP , its root is in #Indian #nationalism & Hindu social consciousness. I experienced violent slogan to expel Muslims, as in #RamNavami demo, as everyday reality in my #Bihar village #Islam #Genocide

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

1 year

The arrest of #ImranKhan & Rached #ghannouchi must be seen as connected, as part of "de-democratization," in which it is tough to separate internal from external factors. #ImranKhanArrested #imran_Khan #ImranKhanArrest #Tunisia #Pakistan #democracy

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

1 year

Signed the Open Letter in Solidarity with #Gaza and the #Palestinians People #sociology #anthropology #Justice #FreedomForPalestine @AmericanAnthro @EASAinfo @ESA_Sociology @SocialAnthropo1 @PublicAnthropol

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

3 years

Happy to share cover of new book, The Nation Form in the Global Age: Ethnographic Perspectives, edited wid Jie Kang. Out soon & it is open access! #India #China #Anthro #nationalism #globalization #Religion @Palgrave @PalgraveSoc @palmacpolitics @mpimmg

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

11 months

Had fever when I spoke 2 @Halilibrh An in-depth discussion with Prof. Dr. @IrfanHindustan from Ibn Haldun Univ on why there are parallels among #Zionism , #Hindutva & #Nazi ideologies. Fascinating insights into historical connections & shared traits.

Siyonistler ve Hindutva gruplar, Nazilerden ilham alıyor

Aşırı milliyetçi ve dışlayıcı ideolojiler olarak değerlendirilen siyonizm ve Hindu milliyetçiliği Hindutva'nın, Avrupa'da soykırım gerçekleştiren Nazilerden ...

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

1 year

Looking forward to take part in this conference that aims to rescue true #Democracy from #PseudoDemocracy , based on rank #HinduOrientalism , rampant in India & elsewhere!

Welcome to Pseudo-Democracy – Unpacking the BJP Victory: Irfan Ahmad

Guest Post by IRFAN AHMAD This article offers a preliminary analysis of what the Modi phenomenon means in terms of BJP’s sweeping win on 16 May. It makes four propositions. First, we stop seeing it…

kafila.online

Indian American Muslim Council

@IAMCouncil

1 year

We're honored to have @IrfanHindustan , Professor of Anthropology at @ibnhalduni , as a speaker at the IAMC National Convention on Oct. 14th in Plano, Texas. Get Your Tickets Today: #IAMCCON23

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

7 months

This is from one of the conversations that I had with @alijaved_nous - young dynamic, innovative, thinker using new media to voice a different politics -during my trip to #India in February. More on this conversation as a long podcast in a day or two! #india #Justice

Nous Network

@nousnetwork

7 months

Professor Irfan Ahmad on the activists and intellectuals being "Technicians of the Power". Watch full podcast on Youtube:

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

9 months

The repression of #ISLAM in #Uzbekistan climaxed after 1917 #Bolshevik revolution, leading to persecution & killing of mudarris-ulama, teachers-scholars, nationalization of vaqf properties & forced removal of veils from women, known as the hujum campaign.

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

3 years

When #WarOnTerror began, many #Indians claimed India was unique & #France ,opposed 2 hijab, should learn from India. With #MuslimGirls in #Hijab banned from colleges in #Karnataka it is unclear who is teaching whom. #Islamophobia is at d core of Indian / #Hindu #nationalism

The Polis Project

@project_polis

3 years

Young girls with hijab not being allowed to attend school is appalling, but not surprising. The rot festering at the heart of this BJP led government began much earlier. As early as Gandhi. @IrfanHindustan writes:

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

1 year

Yes, the ugly mechanisms of power, history, culture, #media & more at work in dispossessing & vilifying #Muslims in #India . #democracy #justice Watch it here

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

11 months

#Habermas as the Stone Philosopher. My essay in @Outlookindia that critically discusses d statement signed by Habermas & 3 others on #Gaza - #Israel .The web version to appear soon about "philosopher of [unjust] consensus" (Derrida) #Genocide_of_Palestinians #SettlerColonialism

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

1 year

Glad 2 share my new essay @melbasiareview Contra #colonial logic of what Spivak said ‘white men saving brown #women from brown men,’ in current #India , it is #Hindu men & women together engaged in saving #Muslim women from Muslim men. #Colonialism Alive.

Securitisation of Muslims in India is as old as modernisation and nation-statisation | Melbourne...

To see securitisation as an outcome of 9/11 and the so-called war on terror is simplistic.

melbourneasiareview.edu.au

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

4 years

Seems there was probably problem with @Twitter — hence twitting again. @MiddleEastEye

How western Islamophobia works in the Global South

International media cite religion as the culprit for a student's beating in Bangladesh, when a host of other factors are at play

www.middleeasteye.net

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

1 year

#Eid for #Ghannouchi , a key voice of #democracy in #Tunisia will be in jail: this is how post-coup democracy is subverted, democrats jailed & dictatorship consolidated. #FreeGhannouchi

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

3 years

This is beautiful & ethical from @AJEnglish and couragous, morally sound, and uplifting work of #journalism by @raqib_naik , standing in the tradition of the likes of @johnpilger

Al Jazeera stands by Raqib Naik’s impeccable journalism and supports his professional contribution...

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the online harassment and death threats endured by freelance journalist Raqib Hameed Naik in response to his investigative report on COVID-19 relief funding to...

network.aljazeera.net

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Irfan Ahmad

@IrfanHindustan

11 months

I salute moral courage & intellect of @jkeaneSDN , a friend whose ideas I have valued & benefited from. Contra power-happy philosophers like #Habermas , by resigning from @WZB_Berlin against its cowardly charge, you show us how to be a truthful scholar. Your response is elegant.

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