Podcasts by Koshur Musalman
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The Saint and the Sword: How Sufi Scholars Resisted Colonialism and State Repression from 2023-09-16T14:26:31
According to Paul Heck, networks of taṣawwuf took the lead in resisting European colonial powers in the nineteenth century, for example in North Africa against the French and in the North Caucas...
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Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation from 2023-08-01T13:26:18
In this podcast, we speak to Professor Hafsa Kanjwal, about her book that was published recently, called Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation. In her work, she hig...
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Disrupting Secular Power from 2021-09-01T13:38:41
In this podcast, we speak to Professor SherAli Tareen. He is the Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College and author of Defending Muḥammad in Modernity. Listen
Oppression, Resistance, and Islam from 2021-06-04T13:59:24
This is the first podcast from our series on "Islam, and the Question of Resisting Oppression". We speak to Professor Ovamir Anjum, and we discuss, among many other things, Islam's framework of res...
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Secularism, Decoloniality, and Kashmir from 2021-04-08T12:25:01
In this second part of our conversation with Professor Salman Sayyid, we discussed, among many things, how secularism and the dichotomies that it produces, have been used as discursive and polit...
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Islam, Kashmir, and Colonialism from 2021-04-07T14:00:03
In this episode, we speak to Professor Salman Sayyid, on how Islam/Muslimness is central to the liberation struggle of Kashmiri Muslims, and how the depoliticization of Islam is a product of Eur...
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Kashmir: Normalization of Occupation from 2021-01-01T13:45:52
We talk about India's project of normalization of its colonialization of Kashmir, and the different modes of power put to use by India to achieve it. Featuring Professor Ather Zia and Professor ...
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Colonial Feminism and Kashmir from 2020-07-28T15:02:43
We talk about the use of the narrative of women's rights in the justification of colonialism.
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In the Name of Women's Rights: The Rise of Fem... Listen
Culture, Psychology and Colonialism from 2020-07-07T15:19:17
We talk about the cultural and psychological aspects of colonialism and decolonization. We also discuss five forms of survival that are essential for a colonized people in their resistance again...
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Fanon and Kashmir from 2020-06-24T15:22:36
We talk about Fanon and some of his ideas about settler-colonialism and the use of violence in the decolonization struggle. We also discuss briefly Fanon's exclusion of Islam from his works on A...
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An Overview of Settler Colonialism from 2020-06-14T13:36:12
This is the first podcast from our series on settler-colonialism. We talk about the threat of physical and symbolic elimination that we are faced with.
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