The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-E Ahmad by Dabashi, Hamid

The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-E Ahmad (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474479288)

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The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-E Ahmad by Dabashi, Hamid

The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-E Ahmad

$120.00
The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-E Ahmad by Dabashi, Hamid

The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-E Ahmad

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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In this social and intellectual biography, Hamid Dabashi contends that Jalal Al-e Ahmad was the last Muslim intellectual to have articulated a vision of Muslim worldly cosmopolitanism, before the militant Islamism of the last half a century degenerated into sectarian politics and intellectual alienation from the world at large.Dabashi places Al-e Ahmad beside other towering critical thinkers of his time, showing how he personified a state of Muslim anticolonial modernity that has now disappeared behind the smokescreen of sectarian politics. This unprecedented engagement with Al-e Ahmad's life and legacy is a prelude to what Dabashi calls a 'post-Islamist Liberation Theology'.The Last Muslim Intellectual expands the wide spectrum of anticolonial thinking beyond its established canonicity by adding a critical Muslim thinker to it - an urgent task, if the future of Muslim critical thinking is to be considered in liberated terms beyond the dead-end of its current sectarian predicament.

Author: Hamid Dabashi
ISBN-10: 1474479286
ISBN-13: 9781474479288
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2021
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d
By Hamid Dabashi
By Hamid Dabashi
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Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York, where he is a founding member of its Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. He is the author of over 25 books, including The World of Persian Literary Humanism (2014); Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene (2015); Iran without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation (2016); Iran: Rebirth of a Nation (2017); The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature (2019); The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (EUP, 2021). His most recent book is Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed: Myth, Metonymy and the Unknowing Subject (EUP 2024).

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