Islam as Method: Decolonizing Inquiry and the Ethical Horizon of Liberation

Edited-volume chapter · Forthcoming

Complete citation

Emin Poljarević. “Islam as Method: Decolonizing Inquiry and the Ethical Horizon of Liberation.” In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Muslim Liberation Theologies, edited by Emin Poljarević and Ivan Ejub Kostić. Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming 2026.

Publication status and type

Forthcoming; edited-volume chapter.

Overview

This edited-volume chapter examines Islam as an ethical and epistemological orientation for decolonising scholarly inquiry and examining liberation. It situates its subject within relevant historical, social, and intellectual contexts while connecting the particular case to wider questions of interpretation, institutional life, and collective action. The publication considers how concepts, actors, traditions, or political conditions acquire significance within changing social settings. Its scholarly contribution lies in placing a clearly defined research problem in a broader interdisciplinary conversation. Read alongside related publications, it also illuminates enduring questions about religion, political inquiry, ethical reasoning, social transformation, and the circumstances under which knowledge, belonging, and collective agency take shape in public life.

Research question or central concern

How can Islam as an ethical and epistemological orientation for decolonising scholarly inquiry and examining liberation be understood in context?

Main argument, approach, and contribution

A context-sensitive scholarly examination of Islam as an ethical and epistemological orientation for decolonising scholarly inquiry and examining liberation.

Keywords

Islam as method; decolonial inquiry; Islamic ethics; liberation; epistemology; justice.