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Sociology of Islam & Muslim Societies, Newsletter No. 3 Portland State University PDXScholar Sociology of Islam & Muslim Societies Newsletter International & Global Studies Fall 2008 Sociology of Islam & Muslim Societies, Newsletter No. 3 Tugrul Keskin Portland State University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/is_socofislamnews Part of the International and Area Studies Commons, and the Sociology Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Keskin, Tugrul, "Sociology of Islam & Muslim Societies, Newsletter No. 3" (2008). Sociology of Islam & Muslim Societies Newsletter. 3. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/is_socofislamnews/3 This Book is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sociology of Islam & Muslim Societies Newsletter by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. SOCIOLOGY OF ISLAM & MUSLIM SOCIETIES ! FALL 2008 Newsletter No. 3 ISSN 1942-7948 VIRGINIA TECH - Department of Sociology 560 McBryde Hall Blacksburg, VA 24061 - USA Contents * Interview with Sherry Jones on Her Novel “The Jewel of Medina”, Islam and Free Speech * The Strange Case of the UIJ, or the evolutions of Uzbek Jihadism by Didier Chaudet * 'Hizb ut-Tahrir in Uzbekistan: A Postcolonial Perspective' by Reed Taylor * Islamic Banking by Husnul Amin Dear All, would like ind out who she really is. Random House cancelled the publication of her novel, It was a couple of weeks ago that I received The Jewel of Medina, as a result of a possible an email from a colleague of mine who was “terrorist” reprisal attack. On the other hand, telling me about a controversial novel written Pakistani‐born Kamran Pasha’s new novel, by Sherry Jones on the Prophet Muhammed’s Mother of the Believers will be released in (SAV) wife, Aisha. First, I thought that this April of 2009. As far as I know Pasha’s new was just another Islamophobic provocation. novel is not different than Sherry Jones’s The However, after conducting some more Jewel of Medina. I wonder why some people extensive research on the topic; I decided to are suddenly interested in studying and interview Sherry Jones in order to writing about Prophet Muhammed’s personal understand what she really thinks and life, instead of writing in the constructive believes about Islam. Is she really framework. My intention is to understand the Islamophobic? Or is she a naïve Westerner motives behind these writings. I have only who is trying to promote herself by using the questions, no answers, but answers will be private life of the most sacred person in provided by the author herself, and you, the Islam? Or are there any political motivations readers will decide whether she is genuine or behind this novel? I believe that we as not. Muslims – either by culture or religion ‐ should understand and differentiate between the Orientalist framework which is based on Peace and Salam to you all, the imperialistic/racist approach similar to what happened in the Danish cartoon crisis in Tugrul Keskin the name of free speech; with people who October, 2008 / Blacksburg, Virginia may have good intentions but really do not understand cultural differences and sensitivities. I did not read her novel, I haven’t read any of her novels; however, personally I [1] spiritual calling. She embodies the woman Interview with Sherry Jones that I would like to be: smart, strong, witty, on Her Novel “The Jewel of Medina” spiritual, loving, giving, and honest with Islam and Free Speech herself about her laws. As I wrote and researched, I developed a respect and regard for the Prophet and for Islam. At the same Tugrul Keskin: Thank you for accepting this time, I regard him as a human being, a interview. I will be very honest and “mortal man,” as he called himself. He must straightforward with you in this interview. have experienced the desires, hungers, fears, This is a very sensitive issue for Muslims and failings that we all struggle with. I that you have broached, in trying to dig up believe that, by bringing those qualities to and question the Prophet Muhammed's light, we honor Muhammad as a being who (SAV) private life; and I believe that as a transcended his lawed humanity by the Muslim, you have a right to criticize Islam grace of God and so served as an example of and Muslims, however, there is thin line what is possible for us all, if we seek and between criticism and insult/racism, like in strive as he did. the case of the Danish cartoon crisis. Would Tugrul Keskin: Today, especially after 9/11, you please tell us about yourself and your many people call themselves an expert on recent novel, The Jewel of Medina? Islam and Muslim societies. We can ind Sherry Jones: I came across the story of these people in Washington DC or A’isha for the irst time shortly after the universities, or at think tanks as just a few World Trade Center attacks in 2001. As a examples. Even in my university, people who woman and a feminist, I was captivated by have never been in any Muslim populated her wit, intelligence, and strength. I began to countries and don't speak any languages are read more about A’isha and her sister‐wives, called ‘Middle East experts’ or ‘experts on and about Muhammad and the revealing of Muslim societies and Islam.’ Of course, many Islam, and I was hooked. My goal was to of these experts use books on Islam from a bring these tales, already familiar to Muslims negative viewpoint to "educate" students. in the rest of the world, to Western How much do you know about Islam and the audiences. I wanted to honor A’isha and the Prophet's Muhammed's (SAV) life? Where other wives by bringing them to life on the did you learn this? What sources did you use page and allowing their voices to be heard in for your book? a historical tradition that largely focuses on Sherry Jones: I am certainly no expert, only the men. an interested Westerner who is always Tugrul Keskin: I don't think that many learning. I have not been able to afford to Westerners understand the level or context travel to Saudi Arabia, where “The Jewel of of certain sensitivities in other cultures. Medina” takes place, and where travel has From my perspective, many Westerners not been so restricted. At any rate, 14 centuries only criticize, but also look down on Muslims have certainly altered the culture and the and demonize Islam in the name of free landscape a great deal. I did study two years speech. This is not the way to build bridges; of Arabic ‐‐ all that was offered at the time ‐‐ it is the way to destroy bridges. Are you one at the University of Montana, and I took an of these people? Basically, why did you write Islamic history course taught by Mehrdad the novel about the private life of the most Kia from Iran. sacred person in Islam? What was or is your As for my sources, I have read everything aim? written in English that I could ind. My Sherry Jones: As I said, my aim was simply to bibliography comprises some 30 books, tell A’isha’s story. I felt called to her, a including a four‐volume biography of the [2] Prophet by Ibn Kathir, written in the 14th others, such as child pornography. These are century; various collections of considered prosecutable offenses under the Hadith;“Women in Islam” by the Moroccan law. scholar Fatima Mernissi; and “Muhammad: A Biography” by the noted Western religious Tugrul Keskin: Do you think Muslims need historian Karen Armstrong. My complete another Rudyard Kipling's the White Man's bibliography is available on my weblog, Burden in order to reform Islam? http://sherryjones.blogspot.com. Sherry Jones: “Need” is not the issue here. I Tugrul Keskin: How do you deine free speech didn’t write my book because I thought according to your book? Do you have the right anyone “needed” it. I wrote it because I was to talk about my private life, do you think this excited about the remarkable A’isha bint Abi is free speech? Bakr and I thought others would like to read about her, too. However, I do think the world Sherry Jones: My right to free speech will beneQit from learning about the compasses my right to artistic expression. In egalitarian underpinnings of Islam and the the United States, we grow up learning that crucial role of women in forming the Umma. the right to freedom of speech, thought, and expression are as fundamental as the right to Tugrul Keskin: Today, there are three types of breathe and live. people who study Islam in the Western Universities and Societies. First, Orientalists Tugrul Keskin: If this is a free speech issue, who are not genuine and are the politically then why did the West not pay attention to motivated crusaders; second, Populists who Norman Finkelstein when he could not get study Islam because Islam is an important tenure at DePauw University, or Ward subject to specialize in, in order to ind a job Churchill who was ired from the University and niche for their careers; third, people who of Colorado as a result of the free speech study Islam, who genuinely want to learn argument? Do you think that free speech is about Islam and Muslim Societies; I believe used as an excuse to insult and discriminate this third category of people are more against people and cultures who are not objective than the rest.
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