In this second part of our conversation with Professor Salman Sayyid, we discussed, among many things, how secularism and the dichotomies that it produces, have been used as discursive and political formations in order to domesticate Muslims, and regulate the behavior of Muslims. 

Recommended Readings:

1. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity, by, Talal Asad.

2. The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament, by, Wael Hallaq.