Nabila Islam

Imam training programs are an oft-advocated policy prescription for the integration of Muslims in the postcolony and the West. Nabila rethinks the meaning of these programs as a solution to the Islam Problem. She argues that the Islam Problem does not arise from Muslims being irreducibly different from others and thus unassilimilable into the body politic; the issue is that they are represented as such. Extending from this epistemological reframing and by contrasting imam training programs in Europe and Bangladesh, Nabila then argue that these programs solve a core problem of racial capitalism; they permit elites to regulate the flows of people, resources, and ideas.