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In the post-9/11 West, there is no shortage of strident voices telling us that Islam is a threat to the security, values, way of life, and even existence of the United States and Europe. For better or worse, "the Muslim question" has become the great question of our time. It is a question bound up with others--about freedom of speech, terror, violence, human rights, women's dress, and sexuality. Above all, it is tied to the possibility of democracy. In this fearless, original, and surprising book, Anne Norton demolishes the notion that there is a "clash of civilizations" between the West and Islam. What is really in question, she argues, is the West's commitment to its own ideals: to democracy and the Enlightenment trinity of liberty, equality, and fraternity. In the most fundamental sense, the Muslim question is about the values not of Islamic, but of Western, civilization.
Moving between the United States and Europe, Norton provides a fresh perspective on iconic controversies, from the Danish cartoon of Muhammad to the murder of Theo van Gogh. She examines the arguments of a wide range of thinkers--from John Rawls to Slavoj Žižek. And she describes vivid everyday examples of ordinary Muslims and non-Muslims who have accepted each other and built a common life together. Ultimately, Norton provides a new vision of a richer and more diverse democratic life in the West, one that makes room for Muslims rather than scapegoating them for the West's own anxieties.
- Sales Rank: #1271418 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-02-21
- Released on: 2013-02-21
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"Is there a clash of civilizations, as Samuel Huntington maintained, between the Muslim world and the West? Norton's response will be of interest to students of geopolitics and Islamic studies."--Kirkus Reviews
"She scores many hits, and illuminates the smug racism behind much recent blazoning of Enlightenment values."--Paul Laity, Prospect
"Two strengths make Norton's work stand out in the crowded field of books that address Islam and democracy. First is her insistence on considering Islamic voices of the past and present, from medieval philosopher al-Farabi to Qutb and Ramadan, as conversation partners within the Western tradition. Second is her concise rebuttal of prominent philosophers, in particular Jacques Derrida, John Rawls and Slovaj Zizek, each of whom has perceived a danger in the nature of Islam."--Steve Young, Christian Century
"Professor Anne Norton of the University of Pennsylvania, is a liberal academic who takes on all the anti-Muslim hysterics, right wing paranoiacs and sloppy thinkers in this measured and profoundly thought-provoking book."--Charles H. Middleburgh, Middleburgh Blog
"Anne Norton provides us with a window into the interaction between European versions of modernity and the Islamic experience, drawing attention to how Muslims often face resistance and hatred as they enter into previously constituted elements of European society."--Tikkun
"Anne Norton's On the Muslim Question . . . is distinguished by moral daring and intellectual perspicacity, that is bold and passionate in tone but also rigorous and academic in substance. . . . Anne Norton's scholarly effort, as much an academic tract as a pamphlet and a political statement, redeems all those promises and amply testifies to the intellectual and moral resources of the academy as well as its integrity."--S. Parvez Manzoor, Muslim World Book Review
"Anne Norton . . . has written an incisive volume analyzing a question at the heart of a number of contemporary vexing domestic and foreign policy issues. She brings to the task an impressive command of the subject matter as well as exceptional insight and judgment as a political theorist."--Mujeeb Khan, H-Net Reviews
"[T]he book is an insightful analysis of the way Islam and Muslims figure in contemporary discourses, and it should be read by students and scholars interested in representations of Islam and Muslims. I recommend it."--Lasse Thomassen, Political Studies Review and Political Theory
"This will be excellent and important reading for missiologists, social anthropologists, political scientists, and others."--Bruce Campbell Moyer, Seminary Studies
"On the Muslim Question, is an indispensable reading for scholars as well as those interested in understanding the complex relationship between Islam and the West."--Asif Mohiuddin, Islam and Civilisational Renewal
"On the Muslim Question combines virtues rarely found in one place. It is scrupulously attentive to the everyday facts about the ways in which the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds interact and devastatingly sharp about the way in which the facts undermine a lot of high-flown commentary on the supposed threat the Muslim world poses to the West. . . . [Norton] is a witty and graceful writer. . . . On The Muslim Question is a triumph."--Alan Ryan, Journal of Church and State
From the Back Cover
"This is an extraordinary book--an impassioned, astute, and erudite critique that strongly refutes the 'clash of civilizations' rhetoric and the stereotypes shaping contemporary discussions of Muslims in the West. It further proposes a concrete alternative vision of democracy in diverse societies. The argument is original and sophisticated and the writing is beautiful--graceful, assertive, and clear. I think this book will achieve instant status as a classic of our time."--Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study
"This is a crisp and bracing snapshot of the ways in which the so-called Muslim problem serves as a repository for a host of Euro-American anxieties, fears, and doubts rather than as an accurate reflection of Islam or the behavior of actual Muslims. One of the great strengths of the book is how it joins a wonderfully eclectic journey through politics, film, scholarship, clothing, fiction, and language with an attention to the different ways the United States and Europe formulate and respond to 'the Muslim problem."--Roxanne Euben, Wellesley College
About the Author
Anne Norton is professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire; 95 Theses on Politics, Culture, and Method; and Republic of Signs.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
An uncompromising expose of the West's latest outburst of 1930s-esque racism
By Mastery
The reception of this book as evinced in the other reviews here is truly bizarre; well, it would be, were it not that the type of attitude these reviews represent is exactly the attitude that Norton bemoans in this brilliant book. As Hobsbawm tell us in his "Age of Extremes", the two world wars spelled the end of Western civilisation's self-belief - in fact, it spelled the end of the West upholding any beliefs whatsoever. As Norton points out in this book, we have become a culture with a purely materialist identity, espousing a default relativism which is exactly what led to the rise of the type of spineless "multiculturalism" we now complain of, as our own civilisational emptiness becomes increasingly accentuated. Islam has now become the scapegoat, and any one who has studied the state of Europe in the 1930s will know that the present hysteria about Islam is really almost distinguishable from 1930s anti-semitism. Even Bernard Lewis, the veteran British-American historian of Islam who is famously both pro-Israel and generally seen as significantly biased and "anti-Islam", admitted in his recent book Islam: The Religion and the People, "Muslim fighters are commanded not to kill women, children, or the aged unless they attack first; not to torture or otherwise ill-treat prisoners; to give fair warning of the opening of hostilities or their resumption after a truce; and to honor agreements. ... At no time did the classical jurists offer any approval or legitimacy to what we nowadays call terrorism. Nor indeed is there any evidence of the use of terrorism as it is practiced nowadays ... the practice of suicide bombing is a development of the 20th century that has no antecedents in Islamic history, and no justification in terms of Islamic theology, law, or tradition ... generally speaking, Muslim tolerance of unbelievers was far better than anything available in Christendom until the rise of secularism." Why on earth has "Islam", then, been allowed to be equated with the crazy actions of a few extremists, who have only grown exponentially in influence because of the stage being set by that very hysteria? It is, says Norton, because of the huge crisis of loss of identity and meaning with which the Western world is now afflicted. I honestly wish people would have a bit of shame and learn a bit about 1400 years of Islamic civilisation. It is sad to see the post-Christian West have another bout of racist scapegoating. And astonishing that a crude rabble-rouser like Ayana Hirsa Ali, so obviously exploiting and cashing in on this frightening wave of prejudice, can possibly be taken seriously by anyone with an ounce of self-respect, or indeed knowledge.
15 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
a compelling democratic vision
By History Reader
"On the Muslim Question" argues persuasively that in disputes over Muslims we can see "Western" nations struggling to decide what democracy means to them and how truly democratic they are. It also shows that, though democracy requires the courage to live with those with whom we are profoundly different, in many places people are managing to do so quite successfully every day. Very readable and very powerful.
11 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Dead Issue. Literally.
By Daniel G. Schaeffer
I probably shouldn't waste any time reviewing this, but I may as well, because it's the only way I can sufficiently vent the bile that kept rising to my throat as I read it. It isn't often that a book makes me that livid with rage, but here goes.
1) This book is totally unnecessary. There've been a score of books on this general subject ever since the Rushdie affair, and their authors are all more qualified to write about such things. This book is just a vanity press number, cobbled together so Professor Norton can prove how avant-garde she is and you aren't.
2) Norton keeps shifting the topic. On the one hand she wants to convince us that she's talking about Islam-per-se; after all, this IS supposed to be about the "clash of civilizations," eh? Why does she mostly talk about contemporary infidel views on Muslims? I didn't notice a quote from the Koran anywhere here -- one would think it as cheery as "The Book of the Dao."
3) Her take on these infidel sources is frequently sanctimonious, vindictive, uncomprehending, self-serving, and disingenuous. Examples: she clearly misunderstands the film "Submission," presumes to tell Ayaan Hirsi Ali that her work is really all about sexual liberation when it's mostly about intellectual liberation (and insults Miss Ali in the process while pretending to praise her, but that's okay, because Ian Buruma does the same thing), she uses Bruce Bawer's homosexuality as a rhetorical weapon against him, and she totally misrepresents the writing of Paul Berman, particularly in the crucial "The Flight of the Intellectuals." Hint -- read the original. It actually has a lot of important things to say. Norton's book isn't really critique, let alone scholarship. It's really just an editorial. And the most insulting bit is on p. 175; she implies that if you're one of these people who has principled objections to the texts or tenets of Islam and are willing to say so, then you're one of these people who secretly wishes to see a "final solution to the Muslim question." That, presumably, is the reason for the ominous black cover. This isn't even editorializing -- it's outright bullying.
In short, this is just another "politically correct" attempt to avoid the real issue as regards the Rushdie affair and everything that followed it, and that, of course, is the death-for-apostasy-and-blashemy tradition in Islam that goes all the way back to Mohammed himself: "If one of you should leave the religion, kill him." Yes, this is a clash of civilizations. Jesus never orders anyone's death, nor does Voltaire.
Read Ibn Warraq, or catch any Youtube video by Christopher Hitchens, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Talsima Nasrin, Maryam Namazie, or a host of others. And leave this book alone. You'll probably want to take a shower after you read it.
And a late addendum: I doubt that Norton can explain the apostasy fatwa on Algerian novelist Medeb Daoub, the ongoing tortutre of Raif Badawi, or the machete killings of the Bangladesh Bloggers, none of whom had anything to do with the "clash of civilizations" she thinks doesn't exist. If it didn't, why all those crimes? Rushdie could tell you.
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