RT Article
T1 Supernatural, Unnatural, Queer: Gratitude and Nature in Islamic Political Theology
JF Political theology
VO 22
IS 8
SP 699
OP 719
A1 Mustafa, Abdul Rahman
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1780480822
AB This article analyzes the problem of gratitude for the gift of nature from the perspective of Islamic political theology, which it reads alongside queer ecology to arrive at an anti-colonial critique of anthropic sovereignty. In classical Islamic theology, (as in the philosophy of Derrida, Nietzsche and Kant), a gift entails a necessary curtailment of the beneficiary’s sovereign freedom and autonomy. Islamic eco-theology, however, frequently valorizes the exercise of anthropic “vice-regal” power over a “subservient” nature, a power that has historically secured the exile of various non/human ontologies from nature and thence from politics. In their shared exile from nature and normativity, Islam, queerness and indigeneity come to form attachments and alliances that interrogate universalizing accounts of nature and humanity. Islamic theology and queer theory also furnish resources that allow irony and jest to emerge as modes by which the Qurʾān stages its playful political critique of anthropic sovereignty.
K1 Secular
K1 Nature
K1 Queer
K1 Ecology
K1 Gratitude
K1 Islam
DO 10.1080/1462317X.2021.1920219