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Being a Muslim in the World
39,99 € |
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Verlag: | Palgrave Pivot |
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Veröffentl.: | 29.10.2012 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781137301291 |
Sprache: | englisch |
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Beschreibungen
What does it mean to be a Muslim - in this world, in this deeply transformative time? Hamid Dabashi suggests that the transition to a changed, post-Western world requires the crafting of a new language of critical conversation with Islam and its cosmopolitan heritage - a language that is tuned to the emerging, not the disappearing, world
Introduction.Muslims in the World 1.But there is neither East nor West 2.Breaking the Binary 3.The Muslim Cosmopole 4.Being a Muslim 5.Din, Dowlat, and Donya: Rethinking Worldliness 6.'Religion—Quote, Unquote' Conclusion.Towards a Hermeneutics of Alterity
Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York.