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Terrorism in Question

Decolonizing Anthropology and the Study of Islam

Irfan Ahmad

376 pages, 45 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-536-8 $150.00/£115.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (June 2026)

eISBN 978-1-83695-537-5 eBook Not Yet Published


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This is a paradigmatic book; hardly one comes across such outstanding scholarly work demonstrating rare intellectual depth, sharp arguments, insightful analysis, critical reflections and convincing explanations. Pralay Kanungo, Leiden University

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Terrorism in Question crafts a political anthropology of post-9/11 “new terrorism” by investigating who needs the category of terrorists and offering a global framework to understand anthropology, Islam and terrorism. In contrast to their depiction as antimodern, barbarian and fanatic, this study theorizes “Muslim terrorists” as radical friends of equality and visionaries of an unrecognized ethical politics. Marshalling fieldwork with media practitioners and refugees, participant observation of counterterrorism conferences in India and Oslo, and encounters with terrorists, it reorients anthropology to elevate its public voice. This book shows how fieldwork, poetry and political theory come together to exemplify decolonized knowledge.

Irfan Ahmad is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. He is author of Islamism and Democracy in India (Princeton University Press, 2009) and Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologyAnthropology of ReligionPeace and Conflict Studies


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