In this podcast, we speak to Professor SherAli Tareen. He is the Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College and author of Defending Muḥammad in Modernity. In this podcast, we talked about:

• Questioning the validity of secularism's claims about itself and its remaking of Islam.
• Evaluating the dichotomies like good Muslim/bad Muslim, moderate Islam/extremist Islam, political Islam/apolitical Islam, violent Islam/non-violent Islam.
• Critiquing liberal discourse on decolonization (in Kashmir and elsewhere) and the inherent Eurocentrism of it.
• Interrogating the popular romanticization of a pre-BJP secular-liberal India.

Recommended Books:

1. Defending Muhammad in Modernity, by SherAli Tareen
2. On Suicide Bombing, by Talal Asad
3. The Politics of Postsecular Religion: Mourning Secular Futures, by Ananda Abeysekara
4. Religion and the Specter of the West, by Arvind Mandair