{"id":290,"date":"2017-10-12T09:49:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T15:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/?p=290"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:05:01","slug":"the-idea-of-the-muslim-world-and-the-global-politics-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/the-idea-of-the-muslim-world-and-the-global-politics-of-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Idea of the Muslim World and the global politics of religion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=apsa_section11\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Responding to\u00a0Cemil Ayd\u0131n\u2019s exceptional new book,\u00a0<em>The Idea of the Muslim World<\/em>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674050372\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvard University Press<\/a> 2017.\u00a0 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Idea-Muslim-World-Intellectual-History\/dp\/0674050371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amazon<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>by past Section Chair, <a href=\"https:\/\/tif.ssrc.org\/author\/elizabeth-shakman-hurd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elizabeth Shakman Hurd<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/images\/jackets\/9780674050372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"234\" \/>&#8220;Recently, a friend of mine originally from Calcutta was outside his house gardening on a Sunday morning when a neighbor came by and asked, \u201cHow was church this morning?\u201d \u201cI didn\u2019t go to church,\u201d he replied, \u201cI\u2019m Hindu.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d she responded. Another day, also while gardening, a different neighbor approached to ask how much my friend charges for landscaping. He explained that he owns the house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We live in a moment in which for some Americans, to be perceived as Muslim, dark-skinned, and\/or non-Christian, generates confusion and, at times, hostility. This is not new.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tif.ssrc.org\/2017\/10\/12\/global-politics-of-religion\/#.Wd96DDcgMaE.twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read it all here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to\u00a0Cemil Ayd\u0131n\u2019s exceptional new book,\u00a0The Idea of the Muslim World, Harvard University Press 2017.\u00a0 [amazon] by past Section Chair, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd &#8220;Recently, a friend of mine originally from Calcutta was outside his house gardening on a Sunday morning when a neighbor came by and asked, \u201cHow was church this morning?\u201d \u201cI didn\u2019t go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}