Not Muslim? No Islam? The Strange Case of Iqbal Nasim

00:00 - Iqbal's Video 03:42 - "Religion" is not adequate? 06:30 - What is "Islam" then? 09:22 - What Iqbal says instead of "religion" 11:18 - "Islam" and "Muslim" are not adequate 13:36 - The problem with Western categories 15:19 - "Islamic" vs "Islamicate" 20:46 - "Muslim" vs "Muslamic" 23:53 - When saying you're Muslim upsets... Muslims 26:33 - Iqbal's idea: getting rid of labels 29:17 - Counter-arguments: can we change how people speak? 33:28 - Abraham: Covenant Iqbal's video    • Why I'm Not A "Muslim" & Why "Islam" Isn't...   REFERENCES Asad, T. 2001. Reading a modern classic: W. C. Smith’s The Meaning and End of Religion. History of Relgions, 40/3, pp. 205-22. Aydin, Cemil. 2017. The Idea of the Muslim World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chidester, D. 2005. Authentic Fakes: Religion and Popular American Culture. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press. Dubuisson, D. 2003. The Western Construction of Religion. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press. Hodgson, Marshall G. S. 1977. The Venture of Islam (Vol. 1): The Classical Age of Islam. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Martin, C. 2009. Delimiting Religion. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. Vol. 21, No. 2 (2009), pp. 157-176. Masuzawa, T. 2005. The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism. Chicago: Chicago University Press. Nongbri, B. 2013. Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept. Yale: Yale University Press. Saler, B. 1993. Conceptualizing Religion. Leiden: Brill. Sapir, E. 1927. “The Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in Society.” The Unconscious: A Symposium, ed. E. S. Dummer, pp. 114-42. Knopf. Smith, W. C. 1978 [1962]. The Meaning and end of religion. London: SPCK. Smith, J. Z. 1998. “Religion, Religions, Religious.” M. Taylor (Ed.), Critical Terms for Religious Studies. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Strenski, I. 2010. Talal Asad's 'Religion' Trouble and a Way Out, Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 136-155. Tweed, T. A. 2006. Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Von Stuckrad, K. 2010. Reflections on the limits of Reflection: An Invitation to the Discursive Study of Religion. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 156-169. ABOUT ME: Hello and welcome! I'm a Sociologist (formerly at the University of Warwick, UK) and I explore social issues and find ways for people to resist, heal and flourish. My publications and other creative projects are on my website https://williambarylo.com . To get in touch, email me at [email protected] This channel will NOT be monetized so: 1. I can have creative freedom and 2. Offer ad-free videos to my viewers. Muslims in the Neoliberal Empire is my latest book published with Oxford University Press. It is about how the society colonises us and what we can do about it. Don’t buy it, it’s really expensive! (I don’t make much money out of it anyway). Check out the contents here: https://mne.williambarylo.com/ If you REALLY want a paper version of the book, use the code AUFLY30 for 30% off when you check out here (I warned you it’s expensive): https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...