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The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History

The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History

By Cemil Aydin

Harvard University Press, 2017, 304 pp.
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“Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.” This was the statement that Trump read aloud at a rally in December 2015, during his campaign for the U.S. presidency. In one sentence, Trump cast Muslims as threats emanating from abroad. He delivered on that characterization as president, signing executive orders that sought to ban the citizens of several Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.

Trump’s push for the so-called Muslim ban provoked intense controversy. Yet

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  • ANVER M. EMON is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Religion, Pluralism, and the Rule of Law at the University of Toronto. DANIEL STEINMETZ-JENKINS is the Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Theology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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