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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

6 years

The idea of ‘a Muslim world’ is both modern and misleading – via @aeonmag

The idea of ‘a Muslim world’ is both modern and misleading | Aeon Essays

Islamists and Western pundits speak of ‘the West’ and ‘the Muslim world’ but such tribalism is dangerous colonial propaganda

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These FBI surveillance files on Molcolm X is worth using in classrooms as primary texts. Can be matched with Malcolm X's Diary.

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Amazing historic video of a debate between Edward Said and Bernard Lewis, 1986.

John O’Brien

@jlpobrien

6 years

“The Scholars, the Media, and the Middle East” debate between Bernard Lewis and Edward Said in 1986 - @MESA_1966

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Two lovely pictures of Baldwin in Istanbul. I somehow needed to see these for inspiration.

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@cemilaydin86

6 years

This statement signed by Vince Carter & others Black former #UNC athletes: "We would have liked to have heard the opinion of the athletic department leadership and coaches…Their silence is very glaring and tells us a story."

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

I enjoyed reading this book review by Asad Dandia so much that I would like to have coffee with its author when I am NY next time.

Asad🗽🍎

@AsadFromNYC

7 years

Here's a full review I wrote. It was a truly eye-opening read: cc: @cemilaydin86

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@cemilaydin86

7 years

I am excited to see several engaging reviews of my book published in various newspapers and journals of India and Pakistan.

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

Surprising discovery while reading Malcolm X's Diary from 1964: Malcolm met and had some nice conversation with famous Turkish bureaucrat and politician Kasım Gülek during his pilgrimage. I would not have expected that.

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@cemilaydin86

6 years

The idea of ‘a Muslim world’ is both modern and misleading | Aeon Essays

Islamists and Western pundits speak of ‘the West’ and ‘the Muslim world’ but such tribalism is dangerous colonial propaganda

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

6 years

I will be in Lahore @ThinkFest next Sunday (on January 13th) afternoon.

The Centre for Governance & Policy

@cgp_pak

6 years

Cemil Aydin will be in conversation with Tahir Kamran at the ThinkFest happening in Lahore on the 12th and 13th of January 2019. Come, think and question!! #thinkfest

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

3 years

@1heybelimeryem Kitap hakkında okuduğum en iyi eleştiri ve yorumlardan birisi bu oldu. Teşekkürler.

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

New York Times in December 1923 depicting the Turkish War of Independence as a global Muslim menace to Christianity and the West!

Dr. Işıl Acehan

@IsilAcehan

7 years

Büyük Taarruz'un başarısı, Mısır, Şam, Beyrut, Filistin'de kutlanıyor. "Kemal Paşa sadece Türklerin kurtarıcısı değil, İslâm kahramanıdır."

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@cemilaydin86

7 years

Thanks to Professor Asma Asfaruddin for this thoughtful and critical review at the Chronicle of Higher Education

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@cemilaydin86

6 years

@DandiaAsad English translation of this wonderful book is forthcoming from Syracuse University Press. Coming soon.

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@cemilaydin86

6 years

For graduate students in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies:

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@cemilaydin86

7 years

Excited to read this review in this wonderful magazine. Glad to see this critical and insightful reception of the book's arguments in Pakistan (which I hope will also happen in Turkey when the book comes out in Turkish translation his summer) Thanks to @AmmarAliQureshi

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@cemilaydin86

6 years

Thanks to @samhaselby for editorial guidance for the essay I wrote on "What is the Muslim World?" at @aeonmag .

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@DandiaAsad

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@cemilaydin86

7 years

Thanks to Jadaliyya and Nadya Sbaiti for this post.

Bassam Haddad

@4Bassam

7 years

Cemil Aydin, The Idea of the Muslim World (New Texts Out Now) via @Jadaliyya

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@cemilaydin86

7 years

Highly recommended forum. There will be more posting coming in the next couple of weeks.

The Immanent Frame

@ImmanentFrame

7 years

NEW FORUM | "The idea of the Muslim world: History and critique" begins with an introduction and initial essay!

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

Thanks to KFCRIS for hosting this workshop on Mecca in Modern Muslim Political Thought.

KFCRIS

@kfcris_en

7 years

The first panel is entitled: “Imagining Mecca as the Center of Pan-Islamic Internationalism, 1882 to 1980” presented by Cemil Aydin from the University of North Carolina.

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

about one of my most favorite recent books, by Salim Yaqub.

Toynbee Prize

@ToynbeePrize

7 years

The 1970s in Arab-American Perspective: An Interview with Salim Yaqub, by @fatmaaladag .

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@cemilaydin86

4 years

@chiaraformichi @kellyahammond @EthanMarkLeiden if you want to hear my humble comments on historiography of the subject since the book's publication, I will be at Lehigh University on zoom this evening.

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

Many thanks to the editors of @ImmanentFrame , and @MicahAHughes for coordinating and hosting this forum. I had a chance to write this piece to continue the conversation with my colleagues who wrote the earlier forum essays:

After the “Muslim world”: Beyond strategic essentialism

Many thanks to Micah Hughes for coordinating this forum and to scholars who contributed to it. All the points made by the forum contributors have clarified and expanded on the...

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

6 years

Asad🗽🍎

@AsadFromNYC

6 years

A century before Said's 'Orientalism,' there was the legendary Indian Muslim scholar Shibli Numani, who challenged Eurocentrism in a travelogue called "Safarnamah-e Rum-o Misr-o Sham" (Travels to Turkey, Egypt, and Syria). Know his story. Know our story.

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7 years

In the Service of (British?) Empire: An Indian Muslim’s Journey to Mecca in 1920

In the Service of Empire: An Indian Muslim’s Journey to Mecca in 1920

For a period of over 150 years, from 1820 until its withdrawal in 1971, Britain was the dominant political and military power in the Persian Gulf. Throughout this period of domination, Britain’s...

www.jadaliyya.com

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

3 years

@uzpece @Muhamme86108476 Evet, Uğur'un notuna katılıyorum. Endülüs ve hatta Selahuddin Eyyubi'ye olan referenslar ondokuzuncu yüzyılın ikinci yarısında çoğalıyor ve yeni bir anlam kazanıyor. Bu konuda Charles Hirschkind cok iyi bir kitap yazdı.

The Feeling of History

In today’s world, the lines between Europe and the Middle East, between Christian Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst, seem to be hardening. Alarmist editorials compare the arrival of...

press.uchicago.edu

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

Great essay to read

The Maydan

@themaydan

7 years

[NEW] "Looking for Religion in South Asian Islamicate Sources" by @ProfIRMF Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst for @themaydan . She examines, among other themes, how Islamicate texts contribute to the history of the study of religion in South Asia and beyond.

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@cemilaydin86

6 years

From the pen of Professor Shirin Sinnar at Stanford Law School.

Confronting Domestic Terrorism Means Confronting White Nationalism—Especially in the White House

Calls for expanded federal terrorism charges are both unnecessary and prone to abuse.

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@ProfIRMF All the 15 students in the class loved the book. I think they finally understood how racialization and minoritization of Muslims happened thanks to this book. I have a sense that majority of them also watched the youtube recording of your impressive talk at Duke-DISC

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

6 years

@123456789blaaa @razibkhan Currently traveling and will write later on. Appreciate the comments, note that this article does not mean to negate the earlier notions of ummah. In fact, it tries to rescue ideas of ummah from the geopolitical notions of the Muslim World. Please see

The idea of the Muslim world: History and critique

Drawing from provocations to think differently about the idea of the Muslim world and the Muslim country, this forum seeks to explicate the various ways in which these terms have...

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@heissenstat Out of fairness to diversity of the Muslims, they should nominate the next Caliph either from West Africa or from Southeast Asia. Fortunately, "üst akıl" netflix is here to help. I recommend watching the show, Sons of Caliphate.

Sons of the Caliphate (TV Series 2016– ) ⭐ 8.1 | Drama

Sons of the Caliphate: With Mofe Duncan, Rahama Sadau, Yvonne Hays, Paul Sambo. This is a drama series about the lives of three rich, entitled, passionate and ambitious young men: Kalifah, Nuhu and...

www.imdb.com

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

Very powerful opinion piece by Doug Sanders linking my book's argument with recent developments in Canada. Bonus: Readers comments prove his main point.

The dangerous fiction of a Muslim world

Of course there is not one homogeneous, ideologically uniform race of Muslim people. But that doesn’t stop Eastern extremists and Western racists alike from spreading the belief

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

An Awesome must read book

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@cemilaydin86

7 years

Modernist themes and pan-Islamism via @TheNewsonSunday

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8 years

Just opened my twitter account. Trying to understand how this works

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

awesome letter exchange! Especially liked Arendt's genuine humility

Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College

@Arendt_Center

7 years

Giorgio Agamben writing to Hannah Arendt: “I am a young writer & essayist . . . "

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

Fifteen Years Ago, America Destroyed My Country

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@cemilaydin86

7 years

Must visit this if you are in the area.

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

fantastic interview about a leading Islamic Studies scholars. I especially like his picture with Ali Shariati in the late 1960s in Mashhad.

The Maydan

@themaydan

7 years

An Interview with Prof. Abdulaziz Sachedina. Photo: Circa '66-67. Sachedina with Ali Shariati at Mashhad University

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

6 years

“I couldn’t in good conscience do that. I would not only be betraying Palestinians suffering under an occupation that I believe is unjust but I’d also be betraying my fellow Americans by enabling violations of our constitutional rights to free speech.”

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

@eshurd

6 years

“I couldn’t in good conscience do that. I would not only be betraying Palestinians suffering under an occupation that I believe is unjust but I’d also be betraying my fellow Americans by enabling violations of our constitutional rights to free speech.”

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

fascinating new biographies of Habermas.

Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

7 years

In 1970 Habermas pushed for Leszek Kolakowski to succeed Adorno at Frankfurt. The resulting conflict, surprise surprise, helped to precipitate Habermas's departure to Starnberg. Extraordinary titbit from Specter’s review of Müller-Dohm’s new biography.

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@cemilaydin86

6 years

The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult

Opinion | The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult (Published 2018)

A wounded and swaggering identity geopolitics puts the world in grave danger.

www.nytimes.com

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

Thank your @AmmarAliQureshi for this generous reading and review

Ammar Ali Qureshi

@AmmarAliQureshi

7 years

My review of Cemil Aydin's book "Understanding the Muslim World": Concocting a ‘Muslim world’

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

Thanks to @abuaardvark for this wonderful list of recommended books.

POMEPS

@POMEPS

7 years

heading out for vacation? check out @abuaardvark 's suggestions on what books to pack

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@cemilaydin86

7 years

Great review of an important book.

The Maydan

@themaydan

7 years

NEW | [Book Review] Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the “Ground Zero Mosque” by Rosemary Corbett |...

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

6 years

A great new book to read.

Eric I Schwartz

@ei_schwartz

6 years

The story of how Earth as a globally interconnected ecosystem requiring cooperative attention arose following WWII. @caelyncobb @cemilaydin86

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@cemilaydin86

7 years

Another awesome reading by Pankaj Mishra:

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

5 years

@haksakal34 Ulus Baker Hoca, kardeşimin ODTÜ'de Sosyoloji hocası idi. Ne zaman Ankara'da ODTU kampüsüne gitsem, ofisini ziyaret ederdik. Tanıdığım en zeki ve mütevazi entellektüellerden biridir. Hatta onunla çekilmiş bir kırık gözlüklü fotoğrafım vardı, o resmi bulmaya çalışacağım.

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@cemilaydin86

3 years

Palestine and Ethical Academic Praxis Letter to Sign by Scholars and Professors:

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6 years

Another great piece by Pankaj Mishra.

Toby Kelly

@tobiaswkelly

6 years

"The malign incompetence of the Brexiteers was precisely prefigured during Britain’s exit from India in 1947, most strikingly in the lack of orderly preparation for it." Pankaj Mishra in the NYT

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@cemilaydin86

7 years

A useful set of primary texts on Arab Revolt of 1916.

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@cemilaydin86

3 years

@daniel_dsj2110 @joelowndes This is an important article on European Right ideologies published by Istanbul University's Sociology Department, one of the oldest sociology departments in the world. I consider it a decolonial practice to publish in non-European and non-US journals, and it is open access.

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

6 years

"We trust the United States Forest Service to 'speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.'"

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

@eshurd

6 years

The judges cited Dr. Seuss' The Lorax: "We trust the United States Forest Service to 'speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.'"

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

Books We Love, Part 2 | Political Theology Network

To help us launch the Political Theology Network, we asked scholars working at the intersection of religion and politics to share five books that inspired them. The “Books We Love” series offers an…

politicaltheology.com

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

Narrating the Fight for Arab Independence: Ilham Khuri-Makdisi Interviews Laila Parsons

My narrative of 1948 also lays bare the fundamental injustice of the situation that the Palestinians found themselves in. I do this by extracting 1948 from the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict...

www.jadaliyya.com

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

Wonderful maps for me when I just checked twitter after several days. Thank you @NicholasDanfort .

Nicholas Danforth

@NicholasDanfort

7 years

@heissenstat @cemilaydin86 the color scheme usually looks like a national or ethnic map, showing each religion as one unified color.

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

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@mahmutlumah @MuratCelik7777 @qklav_ye @terraincognitae @VanerAlper Kitap sadece Library of Congress, Cornell ve Columbia'da microfilm olarak var görünüyor 1. Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540 United States Microform not held; 1 other formats236 miles MAP IT Library info Ask a librarian Add to favorites

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

7 years

An amazing new e-book to download on Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics & Interview with Juliane Hammer.

Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics

This book offers an enriched vision of borders, both analytically and politically, that not only seeks to understand but also to reshape and expand the meanings and consequences of IR. Edited by Marc...

www.e-ir.info

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@cemilaydin86

4 years

@NicoleC_Aboitiz @ColumbiaUP @caelyncobb Congratulations Nicole. We are very proud to see this amazing book in print as well.

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@cemilaydin86

7 years

Indeed

Dr. Megan Goodwin

@mpgPhD

7 years

too real

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@cemilaydin86

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SSRC Immanent @ImmanentFrame is hosting a set of wonderful reflections, critiques and insights on the politics of the Muslim identity.

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@cemilaydin86

6 years

While I am in Lahore next weekend for thinkfest @AfkarEtaza festival, I look forward to attending this conversation on Manto film controversy.

The Centre for Governance & Policy

@cgp_pak

6 years

Ayesha Jalal and Raza Rumi are going to be discussing the Controversy of Manto's film. Come hear them out at the @AfkarEtaza ThinkFest happening on 12th and 13th of January at @LACOfficialPK . @Razarumi #thinkfest

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@cemilaydin86

7 years

Another fantastic historical map from the tweeter exchanges of @NicholasDanfort and @heissenstat . I want to download these for my classes.

Nicholas Danforth

@NicholasDanfort

7 years

@heissenstat @cemilaydin86 But usually they are paired with explicitly racial maps, as if race and religion were two parallel but distinct ways of dividing the world

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@cemilaydin86

6 years

@ToplumsalTarih dergisinin son sayısı Edhem Eldem Hoca'nın editörlüğünde Abdülhamid Han hakkında özel bir dosya olarak çıktı. Naçizane benim de "Sultan Abdülhamid Pan-Islamizmi Anti-Emperyalist miydi" başlıklı bir yazım var. Bu sorunun cevabını merak edenlere duyurulur.

Toplumsal Tarih

@ToplumsalTarih

6 years

301. sayı çıktı! Dergimiz yeni yıla yeni kapak tasarımıyla birlikte, Edhem Eldem'in editörlüğündeki "Abdülhamid’i Nasıl Bilirsiniz?" başlıklı özel dosyasında, Abdülhamid'i ve dönemini günümüzde en tartışmalı yönlerine dair yeni ve eleştirel perspektiflerle ele alarak başlıyor.

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7 years

indeed.

Nael Sanaullah

@NaelSanaullah

7 years

@heissenstat @NicholasDanfort @cemilaydin86 ...of their Muslim faith, despite government authorities acknowledging that they were "Caucasian." Muslims have been and continue to be...

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

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@nihanka @hiyenigun Amazing! This can become my favorite as it comes with the now forgotten internal kitchen designs of Istanbul apartments in the 1960s and the 1970s.

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

6 years

Mishra elegently criticizes New York Times in an opinion piece published by them: "A broad range of figures in the Anglosphere’s establishment, including some of Mr. Trump’s most ostentatious critics today, contributed manure to the soil in which Trumpism flourishes."

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@cemilaydin86

6 years

@ToplumsalTarih dergisi Sultan İkinci Abdülhamid özel sayısı bayilered. Kaçırmayın!!!

Toplumsal Tarih

@ToplumsalTarih

6 years

Toplumsal Tarih’in Ocak 2019 sayısında Cemil Aydın, “Sultan Abdülhamid’in Pan-İslamizmi Anti-Emperyalist Miydi?” başlıklı makalesinde, Abdülhamid dönemindeki Pan-İslamizm ve İslam âlemi anlayışları konusunda, günümüzdeki hakim anlatı ile tarihsel gerçekleri karşılaştırıyor.

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7 years

@cigaistanbul @IIITfriends @izuniversite I wish i was there for the discussion.

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@cemilaydin86

6 years

This is the best piece on how the majority of UNC faculty think about the Confederate monument scandal on campus.

‘We’re Looking for Leadership’: Outcry on Silent Sam Builds on Eve of Critical Board Vote

Striking teaching assistants have injected urgency into the debate over the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Confederate monument. A member of the Board of Governors, set to meet on...

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

8 years

A wonderful review essay on recent books related to Muslim societies, by Yasmine Seale at Harper's magazine

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7 years

fantastic article!

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6 years

Divine fatherhood

For this forum, we invited scholars from varied disciplinary backgrounds, with varied regional and religious expertise, to reflect on what it means to treat fathers as God-like and what it...

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Cemil Aydin

@cemilaydin86

4 years

@YBirt I have Malcolm X's memoirs for 1964 in my office, and could not check it now, but I do recall Malcolm giving a talk in a youth organization that may have been a continuation/former branch of YMMA. Will check that once I can go to my office..

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@cemilaydin86

7 years

The meaning in my student, Taliesin Namkai-Meche's last words (Guest opinion)

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7 years

For colleagues who work on the role of US in world politics

Erez Manela

@erezmanela

7 years

2018-19 Warren Center Faculty Fellowship on U.S. POWER IN THE GLOBAL ARENA. Info at:

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7 years

indeed

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This should help to understand the historical genealogy of Trump's Muslim ban.

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@cemilaydin86

4 years

@ngok46 @cakir_rusen Nazık mesajınız için teşekkürler Nejdet Bey, sizin o değerli akademik çalışmanızdan çok istifade ettim, sonraki çalışmalarımda referanslarım arasında yer aldı sürekli.

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Cemil Aydin

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7 years

Thank you Danille Balderas of UNC-Chapel Hill History Department for a wonderful summary of my book.

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