I usually reserve book discussions and reviews for Andalus Book Club. However, in this episode, I chose to go through a particular book, “Radical Skin, Moderate Masks” by Yassir Morsi, because it’s a good representation of how a new generation of Muslim activists and Muslims in academia are thinking about the world and our place in it.
Topics addressed in this episode include the definition of autoethnographic writing, qualitative vs quantitative research, rationality, how to think about power dynamics in the world, critical race theory, the racialization of Islam and the construction of Muslim identity in the West, and the search for an authentic Islam.
