Unveiling Traditions - Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World

"This excellent book is full of passionate, polemical scholarship. Majid covers a wide-ranging territory--the persistence of 'orientalist' discourse, 'Arab' nationalism, 'Islamic fundamentalism, ' postcolonial criticism, a critique of capitalism, contemporary Muslim feminist scholarship, and (black) African novels from Islamic cultural backgrounds. This timely book will make a significant contribution to current debates about progressive social, political, and cultural directions."-- Abdul JanMohamed, University of California, Berkeley

List of contents

Preface
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Introduction: Villainies Veiled and Unveiled>
1. Can the Postcolonial Critic Speak? Orientalism and the Rusdie Affair
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2. Millennium without Arabs?
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3. The North as Apocalypse
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4. Women’s Freedom in Muslim Spaces
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Conclusion: Indispensable Polyentricity

Notes

Index

About the author

Anouar Majid

Summary

Besides examining the resiliency of orientalism, this title 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.

Product details

• Authors: Anouar Majid, Majid, Anouar Majid
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2000
• EAN: 9780822326298
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2629-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Weight: 671 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Islam, Soziale Gruppen: religiöse Gemeinschaften, Bezug zum Islam und islamischen Gruppen