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A nuanced and highly original anarchistic interpretation of Islam, and Islamic interpretation of anarchism
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration and Translation
1. Introduction: Panegyric Desert of the Present
The Destructive Legacy of (Neo)Liberalism and Colonial Modernity in the Production of Neo-Orientalist and Neo-Fundamentalist Muslim Subjectivities
A Match to a Powder Keg
Isl¿m and Anarchism Are Dead: Muslim Anarchists in Turtle Island's Newest Social Movements
Positionality: Who Is Speaking?
A Sum Exceeding the Whole, Everything Divided: The Argument Condensed
2. Authoritarianism, Capitalism, and Capitalist Nation-States: Anarcha-Isl¿m's Playground and Ethical-Political Consciousness
On Decolonization and Reindigenization, and the Crises of Fleeting Tahrir Moments
Thus Spoke God: The Method of Anarchic Ijtih¿d
Deleuze and Guattari's Oedipal Triad: The Nation-State (Daddy) - Capitalism (Mommy) - and Me/Us
3. Anarcha-Isl¿m: An Anti- and Non-Authoritarian Isl¿m
Anarcha-Isl¿m's Osteological Left-Side
Arise: An Anti- and Non-Authoritarian Isl¿m
Modern Uses of Wat¿aniyyah, Qawmiyyah, and Dawla, and Decolonized Vestiges of the Umma and ¿m¿mah in Arab and Muslim Lexicons
Muslim and Non-Muslim Glossaries of Indigeneity Towards a Resurgent Umma: Anti-Blackness and Anti-Indigenous Politics
4. Anarcha-Isl¿m: An Anti- and Non-Capitalist Isl¿m
Anarcha-Isl¿m's Osteological Right-Side
Awaken: An Anti- and Non-Capitalist Isl¿m: Micro- and Macro-Economics
As Patients We Come to Each Other's Aid
5. Uprisings: On (Im)Possibilities and Militant Resistance
The Delusional Myth of Nonviolence
Violence, Jih¿d, and Qit¿l in Isl¿m: A Single Blunder Can Fuel a Great Fire
From the Deception of "Nonviolence" to Red, Black, and Brown Power
Liberatory Victory
6. Conclusion: There Are Only Middles, No Beginnings and No Ends. Between BLM, NoDaPL-INM, and Tahrir
Notes
Index
About the author
Mohamed Abdou is a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist activist-scholar. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University of Cairo. His twenty years of activist research and experience centers on Palestinian, Indigenous, Black, and people of colour liberation, and draws on the Indigenous Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico, as well as his participation in the Egyptian uprisings of 2011.
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A nuanced and highly original anarchistic interpretation of Islam, and Islamic interpretation of anarchism
