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Can Ramadan Be A Decolonization Moment?

Arab Talk with Jess & Jamal

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The Imprint of Colonization on the Muslim World

In your article, you talk about modern Islam as distinct from the traditional Islam and as something that evolved within colonial parameters. Let's talk about colonialism in stratus, starting with the psyche. Well, if we think about the imprint of colonization on the Muslim world, but also around the globe, colonization was not only a military project. The education system in the Muslim world is still colonial in nature. If it's as continues to be, the economy is colonial, the political structure is colonial and I would say our selectivity of religious discourses is colonial. So in this sense, we cannot really speak of modern Muslim and modern Islamic world without actually engaging in the discussion about what colonization meant and

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