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Record W7132837333 · doi:10.13169/reorient.10.1.0009

Exchanges with Schirin Amir-Moazami: Interrogating Muslims

2025· article· en· W7132837333 on OpenAlexaff
Uzma Jamil

Bibliographic record

VenueReOrient · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIslamic Studies and History
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIslamGovernment (linguistics)Agency (philosophy)NarrativePerspective (graphical)

Abstract

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Schirin Amir-Moazami's book, Interrogating Muslims, is a brilliant analysis of the techniques of power deployed by the German state in its national project of the "integration" of Muslim citizens.It is an ontological critique that plays on the idea of interrogation indicated in the title.It refers, on one hand, to the superficial question that creates an automatic Muslims/West binary of why don't/can't Muslims "integrate" into Western society, referring to the German state's interrogation of Muslims as not-good-enough-citizens in this discourse.On the other hand, it refers to the author's interrogation of the terms of this "integration".As she notes, Amir-Moazami is not interested in answering the first question.She is interested in why that question is asked in the first place and what the conditions are that make that possible.In answer, she lays out a detailed genealogical analysis of how the terms of the liberal-secular matrix are constructed such that Muslims are constrained as subjects who are and always will be separate and subordinate, perpetually unable to meet the demands placed upon them to perform as "good" citizens.Amir-Moazami's critique of the positivist and Eurocentric logics and methodologies that animate the German state's desire to "measure Muslimness" through "integration" resonates with the intellectual approach of Critical Muslim Studies in this journal ( Editorial Board 2015).Coming from different disciplines, the four contributors to Exchanges,

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.030
Threshold uncertainty score0.033

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0300.018
Scholarly communication0.0070.006
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0070.011
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.294
Teacher spread0.281 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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