The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-E Ahmad Paperback - 2022
by Hamid Dabashi
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The first comprehensive social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad This book explores the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923-69) - arguably the most prominent Iranian public intellectual of his time - and contends that he 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. Hamid 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 is about expanding the wide spectrum of anticolonial thinking beyond its established canonicity and 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. Key Features - A full social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, a seminal Muslim public intellectual of the mid-20th century - Places Al-e Ahmad's writing and activities alongside other influential anticolonial thinkers of his time, including Frantz Fanon, Aim Csaire and Edward Said - Chapters 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 legacy
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- Title The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-E Ahmad
- Author Hamid Dabashi
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 344
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date 2022-11-28
- ISBN 9781474479295 / 1474479294
- Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.72 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.83 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Religious Orientation: Islamic
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