Islam and Postcolonial Narrative

Islam and Postcolonial Narrative
Title Islam and Postcolonial Narrative PDF eBook
Author John Erickson
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 218
Release 1998-09-24
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521594233

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In Islam and Postcolonial Narrative, John Erickson examines four major authors from the 'third world'.

Colonial and Post-colonial Governance of Islam

Colonial and Post-colonial Governance of Islam
Title Colonial and Post-colonial Governance of Islam PDF eBook
Author Marcel Maussen
Publisher Amsterdam University Press
Pages 258
Release 2011
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9089643567

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Colonial and post-colonial governance of Islam" is een heldere weergave van de kansen en belemmeringen voor de islam vanuit een bestuurlijke benadering met speciale aandacht voor de voortdurende strijd rond de codificatie van islamitisch onderwijs, religieuze autoriteit, wetgeving en praktijk. De auteurs onderzoeken de overeenkomsten en verschillen van de islam in het Britse, Franse en Portugese koloniale bestuur. Zij maken gebruik van hun expertise om de aard van de regelgeving in verschillende historische periodes en geografische gebieden te analyseren. Deze studie opent nieuwe mogelijkheden voor mondiaal onderzoek naar studies van de islam.

Islam and Postcolonial Narrative

Islam and Postcolonial Narrative
Title Islam and Postcolonial Narrative PDF eBook
Author John Erickson
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 218
Release 1998-09-24
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0521594235

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In Islam and Postcolonial Narrative, John Erickson examines four major authors from the 'third world'.

Unveiling Traditions

Unveiling Traditions
Title Unveiling Traditions PDF eBook
Author Anouar Majid
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 239
Release 2000-11-29
Genre Religion
ISBN 0822380544

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In Unveiling Traditions Anouar Majid issues a challenge to the West to reimagine Islam as a progressive world culture and a participant in the building of a multicultural and more egalitarian world civilization. From within the highly secularized 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 organizations, 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 theorizing 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.

My Son the Fanatic

My Son the Fanatic
Title My Son the Fanatic PDF eBook
Author Hanif Kureishi
Publisher Hueber Verlag
Pages 44
Release 2008
Genre
ISBN 9783191195601

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The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies
Title The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies PDF eBook
Author Graham Huggan
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 751
Release 2013-09-12
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0191662410

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The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised into five cross-referenced sections, 'The Imperial Past', 'The Colonial Present', 'Theory and Practice', 'Across the Disciplines', and 'Across the World'. The chapters offer both country-specific and comparative approaches to current issues, offering a wide range of new and interesting perspectives. The Handbook reflects the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of postcolonial studies and reiterates its continuing relevance to the study of both the colonial past—in its multiple manifestations— and the contemporary globalized world. Taken together, these essays, the dialogues they pursue, and the editorial comments that surround them constitute nothing less than a blueprint for the future of a much-contested but intellectually vibrant and politically engaged field.

Religion as Critique

Religion as Critique
Title Religion as Critique PDF eBook
Author Irfan Ahmad
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 300
Release 2017-11-20
Genre Religion
ISBN 1469635100

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Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam--indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices. Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad delineates thriving traditions of critique in Islamic culture, focusing in large part on South Asian traditions. Ahmad interrogates Greek and Enlightenment notions of reason and critique, and he notes how they are invoked in relation to "others," including Muslims. Drafting an alternative genealogy of critique in Islam, Ahmad reads religious teachings and texts, drawing on sources in Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, and English, and demonstrates how they serve as expressions of critique. Throughout, he depicts Islam as an agent, not an object, of critique. On a broader level, Ahmad expands the idea of critique itself. Drawing on his fieldwork among marketplace hawkers in Delhi and Aligarh, he construes critique anthropologically as a sociocultural activity in the everyday lives of ordinary Muslims, beyond the world of intellectuals. Religion as Critique allows space for new theoretical considerations of modernity and change, taking on such salient issues as nationhood, women's equality, the state, culture, democracy, and secularism.