World Is My Home - A Hamid Dabashi Reader

Brings together some of the author's most important writings, especially those which offer various ways of understanding Islam, Iran, Islamist ideology, global art, and the condition of global modernity more generally. This book shows the underlying conceptual themes that unify his wide-ranging insightful corpus.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Counter-Imagining Islam and Iran
Islams
1. In the Absence of the Face
2. Shi'ism as Paradox
3. Counter-Imagining the Sacred
Islamic Ideology
4. The Power of Interpretation
5. Blindness and Insight: The Predicament of a Muslim Intellectual
Iran
6. On Nations Without Borders
7. Khomeini's Revolution
Part 2: Emancipatory Aesthetics
Poetic Revolutions
8. Nima Yushij and the Constitution of a National Subject
9. Forugh Farrokhzad and the Formative Forces of Iranian Culture
Cinematic Palpitations
10. Kiarostami and Makhmalbaf
11. On Signs and Signation
New Global Visual Arts
12. Whither Iranian Cinema? The Perils and Promises of Globalization
13. It was in China, Late One Moonless Night
Hamid Dabashi: A Select Bibliography
Index

About the author

Andrew Davison

Summary

As recent events indicate, Iranian, Middle Eastern, and Islamic politics more broadly have been deeply influential in world affairs

Product details

• Authors: Hamid Dabashi, Andrew (EDT)/ Muppidi Davison, Andrew Muppidi Davison
• Assisted by: Andrew Davison (Editor), Davison Andrew (Editor), Himadeep Muppidi (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2010
• EAN: 9781412813440
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-1344-0
• No. of pages: 404
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Middle East, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Islamic & Arabic philosophy, Islamic and Arab philosophy