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'.
Author: Hamid Dabashi
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 11/28/2022
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.72d
ISBN13: 9781474479295
ISBN10: 1474479294
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers
- History | Middle East | Iran
- History | Modern | 20th Century | General
About the Author
Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of over 25 books and focuses on the social and intellectual history of Islam, both medieval and modern. Among his most recent books are The World of Persia Literary Humanism (2014); Can Non-Europeans Think? (2015); 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 (2021). He is a globally recognised critical thinker on contemporary affairs and a regular columnist for Aljazeera.