# Mahmood Mamdani

热门播客单集
已更新:

UNLOCK 24.1: Mutual Aid in Islam w/Mona Haydar

In part two of my conversation with Mona Haydar, we move from the theological architecture of Islamic mutual aid into the lived political pressure of Muslim identity in America. We dig into the good Muslim/bad Muslim trap that Mahmood Mamdani diagnosed: the demand to perform as secular, unthreate...

Bonus Sample: Nair, Mamdani, and Culture against the Culture War (Pt 1)

Well, I seem to always be inspired by the person who is considered marginal. Firstly, their spirit of survival, their resilience, their lack of self-pity, the ability usually to laugh in the face of having nothing and to create a kind of sense of flamboyance and life at any cost, despite having y...

Brief: Nair, Mamdani, and Culture against the Culture War (Pt 1)

Well, I seem to always be inspired by the person who is considered marginal. Firstly, their spirit of survival, their resilience, their lack of self-pity, the ability usually to laugh in the face of having nothing and to create a kind of sense of flamboyance and life at any cost, despite having y...

Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities with Mahmood Mamdani (Episode 62)

This episode explores how colonial states and nation-states have been mutually constructed through the deliberate politicization of religious or ethnic majorities at the expense of manufactured minorities. The discussion traces this destructive pattern from its American origins—where genocide and...

EPISODE 2 When the Law Only Sees Part of You: Citizens, Subjects and Partial Legal Subjectivity

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Episode 2: Citizen, Subject and Partial Legal Subjectivity In this episode of Language for Living, I explore Mahmood Mamdani’s Citizen and Subject alongside Oliver Phillips’ concept of partial legal subjectivity. We look at how colonial l...

Who Is a Bad Muslim, and Why Will Mayor Mamdani Always Be One?

Mayor Mamdani was publicly disinvited from 9/11 memorial services, and his dad wrote a book that helps us understand why. We’re thinking about a framework that has shaped how scholars think about Islam, terrorism, and American politics for more than twenty years: Mahmood Mamdani’s Good Muslim, Ba...

Why Islamophobes Hate These Books | Yasir Qadhi

What argument in Good Muslim, Bad Muslim threatens the Islamophobia narrative? Yasir Qadhi examines Mahmood Mamdani’s book, colonialism, political Islam, Western power, terrorism, identity, media manipulation, and Muslim resistance. If this podcast helps you learn about Islam, leave a 5⭐ rating. ...

The State of Fascism w/ Bill Fletcher Jr (E229)

Today we’re joined by Bill Fletcher Jr. Over 2 years ago, this longtime USA-based labor and social justice activist was on TFTT to talk about the threats of what was then a theoretical disaster: a second Trump administration. I’m sorry to say that our predictions came true, and I don’t think I ha...

Episode 55 - Neither Settler Nor Native

Will and Aaron read Mahmood Mamdani's Neither Settler Nor Native and discuss survival of colonialism, the necessity of the national question, and whether 'pilgrimate' is a word.   All music by Sisyphus Happy.