The Last Muslim Intellectual : : The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad / / Hamid Dabashi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Dabashi, Hamid,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Ano de Publicação: 2022
• Idioma: English
• Colecção: Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
• Descrição Física: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 14 B/W illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: ‘The Last Muslim Intellectual’ --; 1 Remembrance of Things Past --; 2 ‘Something of an Autobiography’ --; 3 Her Husband Jalal --; 4 The Master Essayist --; 5 Gharbzadegi: The Condition of Coloniality --; 6 Literary Interludes --; 7 Travelling In and Out of a Homeland --; 8 Translating the World --; 9 From a Short Life to a Lasting Legacy: Towards a Post-Islamist Liberation Theology --; Index
• Resumo: Explores the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923–69) – arguably the most prominent Iranian public intellectual of his timeA social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, a seminal Muslim public intellectual of the mid-20th centuryPlaces Al-e Ahmad’s writing and activities alongside other influential anticolonial thinkers of his time, including Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire and Edward SaidChapters cover Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s intellectual and political life; his relationship with his wife, the novelist Simin Daneshvar; his essays; his fiction; his travel writing; his translations; and his legacyIn this social and intellectual biography, Hamid Dabashi contends that Jalal Al-e Ahmad was the last Muslim intellectual to have articulated a vision of Muslim worldly cosmopolitanism, before the militant Islamism of the last half a century degenerated into sectarian politics and intellectual alienation from the world at large.Dabashi places Al-e Ahmad beside other towering critical thinkers of his time, showing how he personified a state of Muslim anticolonial modernity that has now disappeared behind the smokescreen of sectarian politics. This unprecedented engagement with Al-e Ahmad’s life and legacy is a prelude to what Dabashi calls a ‘post-Islamist Liberation Theology’.The Last Muslim Intellectual expands the wide spectrum of anticolonial thinking beyond its established canonicity by adding a critical Muslim thinker to it – an urgent task, if the future of Muslim critical thinking is to be considered in liberated terms beyond the dead-end of its current sectarian predicament.
• Formato: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474479301; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110992762; 9783110992755; 9783110780406
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474479301
• Acesso: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hamid Dabashi.

Explores the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923–69) – arguably the most prominent Iranian public intellectual of his timeA social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, a seminal Muslim public intellectual of the mid-20th centuryPlaces Al-e Ahmad’s writing and activities alongside ot...