Asad’s critique resembles the reductive content-readings he targets

Evidence

Asad’s view is paradoxically reminiscent of just those readings for content that pigeonhole Muslim texts as always answering particular questions dictated by the external world. Instead of anthropological readings extracted by reviewers, here we have an anthropological reading by an anthropologist that is, unfortunately, no less narrow. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 495

Categorization

• XREF: Sharpens the reader’s test: a novel contests Islamophobia when it refuses to be an ‘anthropological reading’ — importing this criterion directly into how to position Hamid and Naqvi as evidence rather than illustration.