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ProfDr Irfan Ahmad

@sociologistirfan.bsky.social
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Prof-Anthro, IbnHaldun Uni, Türkiye, ex @monashuniversity.bsky.social, @mpimmg.bsky.social; author @princetonupress.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social, @berghahnbooks.bsky.social, www.irfanahmad.org ibnhaldun.academia.edu/ProfIrfanAhm…

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ProfDr Irfan Ahmad @sociologistirfan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
An interview about my book, "Terrorism in Question: Decolonizing Anthropology and the Study of Islam" from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social , published in the #malayalam magazine, Madhyamam. www.madhyamam.com/weekly/inter... www.academia.edu/170518922/Ah... www.berghahnbooks.com/title/AhmadT...
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ProfDr Irfan Ahmad @sociologistirfan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Getting ready for this event tomorrow; based on my new book, "Terrorism in Question", I will do online keynote on Global War on Terror for the conference in Ernakulam, #Kerala , #India. berghahnbooks.com/title/AhmadT... academia.edu/168199837/Ah... #Anthropology #ethnography #politicalvioelnce
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ProfDr Irfan Ahmad @sociologistirfan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Book's Description, Compressed. "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."
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ProfDr Irfan Ahmad @sociologistirfan.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Glad to share my new essay in Sociological Bulletin, journal of Indian Sociological Society Toward a Genealogy of Indian Sociology: Knowledge as Nationalism, Nationalism as Knowledge --Irfan Ahmad It is open access. :) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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ProfDr Irfan Ahmad @sociologistirfan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Glad2share my podcast with Dr.Pascal Lottaz,Kyoto Uni; mainly on my essay "Habermas as an Ethnic Thinker Par Excellence: On Critique, Palestine and the Role of Intellectuals" in Teaching in Higher Education but encompassing war, "global community." universalism etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f5Y...
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The Blind Empire: Why the West Can't See it's Failing so Hard | Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad
YouTube video by Neutrality Studies
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ProfDr Irfan Ahmad @sociologistirfan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Thanks; here is the link to the article Habermas as an ethnic thinker Par Excellence: on critique, Palestine and the role of intellectuals www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Habermas as an ethnic thinker Par Excellence: on critique, Palestine and the role of intellectuals
Taking Habermas’ 2023 statement on Palestinians-Israel as the point of entry, this article examines his concept of critique. Against the dominant view of him as a philosopher of ‘universalism’ and ...
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ProfDr Irfan Ahmad @sociologistirfan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
My Oped in @indianexpress.com For Habermas, after Cold War, the enemy was not capitalism but its "management." He erased ongoing brutalization of lifeworld of Palestinians (un)living under Israeli settler colonialism. indianexpress.com/article/opin... 4 detailed critique, doi.org/10.1080/1356...
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ProfDr Irfan Ahmad @sociologistirfan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
In light of the development about the "Board of Peace," sharing this video I earlier did with @nousnetwork Israeli Occupation, European Nationalism & the Indian Connection www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sxE...
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ProfDr Irfan Ahmad @sociologistirfan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Glad to share the news that I have signed the contract with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social for my new book, Terrorism in Question: Decolonizing Anthropology & the Study of Islam. Currently in production, It will come in 2026. #anthropology #terrorism #decolonial #Islam #Truth #theory #methodology
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ProfDr Irfan Ahmad @sociologistirfan.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
My first post on this platform. Happy to share news about the Arabic edition of my book, Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace. The distinguished Translator is by Yasser Thabit. Link to book on publisher's website: www.dohainstitute.org/.../religion....
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