The Last Muslim Intellectual : The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad Hardback
by Hamid Dabashi
Part of the Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World series
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This book explores the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923–69) – arguably the most prominent Iranian public intellectual of his time – and contends that he 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. Hamid 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 is about expanding the wide spectrum of anticolonial thinking beyond its established canonicity and 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.
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- Pages:304 pages, 14 B/W illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2021
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- ISBN:9781474479288
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages, 14 B/W illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781474479288
