Aamir R Mufti

... of &amp;quot;firsts&amp;quot; (five, by my count) - which, he feels, should have made... more ... of &amp;quot;firsts&amp;quot; (five, by my count) - which, he feels, should have made my work on Rushdie (and presumably that of Sara Suleri and ... of actual complicities between the two, ranging from eleven years of CIA sponsoring of the Afghan fundamentalist parties, to Irani &amp;quot;contragate&amp;quot; dealings ...

Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, secular criticism, and the question of minority culture

Duke University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2020

Reading the Rushdie Affair: An Essay on Islam and Politics

Social Text, 1991

The Islamic furor surrounding the publication of The Satanic Verses (SV) and, since February 1989... more

Erich Auerbach and the death and life of world literature

Routledge eBooks, Feb 17, 2015

Introduction: The Returns of Fascism

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The Grannies of Shaheen Bagh: Hindutva Power and the Poetics of Dissent in Contemporary India

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This essay focuses on contemporary India and the rise to near hegemony of “Hindutva power,” which... more This essay focuses on contemporary India and the rise to near hegemony of “Hindutva power,” which works through both the transformation of the exercise of sovereign power and the inculcation of a distinct habitus, or structure of predispositions, in more and more sectors of society. This Hindu supremacist and nationalist habitus marks a far-reaching transformation not only of democratic political culture but of religious belief and practice as well. But despite their sense of inevitability, these developments are part of a scene of contestation and the staging of prodemocracy and anti-fascist dissent.

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A response to talal asad's "reflections on violence, law, and humanitarianism

Enlightenment in the colony

Prologue: The Universal Library of World Literature

Forget English!, 2016

The Missing Homeland of Edward Said

Conflicting Humanities, 2016

Bricolage Within the Imperial Divide: Introduction to Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi's Jugaad

ARTMargins, 2020

Jugaad continues Iftikhar and Elizabeth Dadi's extended artistic investigation of informality... more Jugaad continues Iftikhar and Elizabeth Dadi's extended artistic investigation of informality in the Global South, which arguably constitutes the majority experience of this vast region. Development became a central problematic for Africa and Asia in the wake of political decolonization of the mid twentieth century, encompassing the ambition for formal planning of large-scale infrastructure and state intervention in human development. But this project was always incomplete and resonated in complex ways with the tenacious growth of informal living and working arrangements whose legacies can be traced back to the colonial era. Informality is amplified in contemporary globalization that is often understood as a process in which transnational brands and lifestyles replace their local analogs. But this view overlooks globalization's shadows—the largely invisible processes of labor, production, and consumption that transpire in the vast informality of the Global South. This is a r...

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Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures (Harvard University Press, 2016)

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Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture--Prologue (Princeton University Press, 2007)

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A Note on Translation and Transliteration