The Last Muslim Intellectual by Hamid Dabashi
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. This unprecedented engagement with Al-e Ahmads life and legacy is a prelude to what Dabashi calls a post-Islamist Liberation Theology.-
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Ilkhanid Capital Cities
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Political, Social and Cultural History of Modern Iran
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Iranian Exiles and Stalin’s Great Terror
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Nationalising Oil and Knowledge in Iran
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Azeri Turkish Narratives in Twentieth-Century Iran
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The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
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The Subversive Seventies in Tehran
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Sovereignty in Iran
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Muslim-Christian Polemics in Safavid Iran
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The Loneliest Revolution
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The Persian Prison Poem
Hamid Dabashi’s remarkable work on Iranian ‘cosmopolitan humanism’ has already expanded the parameters of discussions on non-western thought to highlight the quest for an anticolonial modernity as integral to its global reachIn this well-balanced and elegantly written volume, Dabashi treats Al-e Ahmad, a preeminent intellectual of his time, as a pioneering -anticolonial theorist who Islamist thinkers, such as Ali Shari‘ati, would only later develop an elective affinity for, in the process recasting him an anti-western nativist. Dabashi situates Al-e Ahmad alongside other anticolonial thinkers to remind us that "Al-e Ahmad could not have anticipated Shari’ati would have taken him all the way to the borderlines of a committed Islamist ideologue." Along the way, this provocative work raises important questions about the evolution of an anticolonial canon and the crystallization of sectarian divisions. * Ali Mirsepassi, Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor, New York University *
In prose crackling with an urgency and tenor reminiscent of Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s own style in Persian, Hamid Dabashi delivers an impassioned argument for reading Al-e Ahmad as the last cosmopolitan Muslim intellectual on a par with the likes of Césaire and Fanon. * Nasrin Rahimieh, Howard Baskervile Professor of Humanities, UC Irvine *
In prose crackling with an urgency and tenor reminiscent of Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s own style in Persian, Hamid Dabashi delivers an impassioned argument for reading Al-e Ahmad as the last cosmopolitan Muslim intellectual on a par with the likes of Césaire and Fanon. * Nasrin Rahimieh, Howard Baskervile Professor of Humanities, UC Irvine *
Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of many books and articles on the social and intellectual history of Islam, both medieval and modern, many of them translated into other languages. He is a globally recognized critical thinker on contemporary affairs and a regular columnist for Aljazeera.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781474479288 |
| ISBN 10 | 1474479286 |
| Title | The Last Muslim Intellectual |
| Author | Hamid Dabashi |
| Series | Edinburgh Historical Studies Of Iran And The Persian World |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2021-03-31 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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