Last Muslim Intellectual
The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad
Published on 2. March 2021
346 pages
978-1-4744-7930-1 (ISBN)
Description
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. This unprecedented engagement with Al-e Ahmad's life and legacy is a prelude to what Dabashi calls a 'post-Islamist Liberation Theology'.
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Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: 'The Last Muslim Intellectual'
- 1 Remembrance of Things Past
- 2 'Something of an Autobiography'
- 3 Her Husband Jalal
- 4 The Master Essayist
- 5 Gharbzadegi: The Condition of Coloniality
- 6 Literary Interludes
- 7 Travelling In and Out of a Homeland
- 8 Translating the World
- 9 From a Short Life to a Lasting Legacy: Towards a Post-Islamist Liberation Theology
- Index
