Unveiling Traditions

Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World

Autor: Anouar Majid

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Duke University Press

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In Unveiling Traditions Anouar Majid issues a challenge to the West to re-imagine Islam as a progres...

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Autor

Anouar Majid

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2000

Stránek

240

EAN

9780822326236

ISBN

082232623X

Enbook ID

04937353

Vydavatel

Duke University Press

Hmotnost

326

Rozměry

152 x 229 x 13

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In Unveiling Traditions Anouar Majid issues a challenge to the West to re-imagine Islam as a progressive world culture and a participant in the building of a multicultural and more egalitarian world civilisation. From within the highly secularised space it inhabits, a space endemically suspicious of religion, the West must find a way, writes Majid, to embrace Islamic societies as partners in building a more inclusive and culturally diverse global community. Majid moves beyond Edward Said's unmasking of orientalism in the West to examine the intellectual assumptions that have prevented a more nuanced understanding of Islam's legacies. In addition to questioning the pervasive logic that assumes the "naturalness" of European social and political organisations, he argues that it is capitalism that has intensified cultural misunderstanding and created global tensions. Besides examining the resiliency of orientalism, the author critically examines the ideologies of nationalism and colonialist categories that have redefined the identity of Muslims (especially Arabs and Africans) in the modern age and totally remapped their cultural geographies. Majid is aware of the need for Muslims to rethink their own assumptions. Addressing the crisis in Arab-Muslim thought caused by a desire to simultaneously "catch-up" with the West and also preserve Muslim cultural authenticity, he challenges Arab and Muslim intellectuals to imagine a post-capitalist, post-Eurocentric future. Critical of Islamic patriarchal practices and capitalist hegemony, Majid contends that Muslim feminists have come closest to theorising a notion of emancipation that rescues Islam from patriarchal domination and resists Eurocentric prejudices. Majid's timely appeal for a progressive, multicultural dialogue that would pave the way to a polycentric world will interest students and scholars of postcolonial, cultural, Islamic, and Marxist studies.

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