| #1435914 in Books | 2008-07-03 | 2008-05-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.72 x6.14l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 320 pages||9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| An important piece of work|By Jean J. Hughes|Historian and theologian, Hamid Dabashi is forthright, organized and thorough. The introduction is a bit repetetive but, as a life-long teacher, I understand his continually bringing us back to the outline. His is the story of an ancient people whose theology/religiosity and life style are so integrated as to be inseparable. The b|About the Author|Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York, USA. He is the author of several books including: Authority in Islam: From the Rise of Muhammad to the Establishment
This book is a radical piece of counter-intuitive rethinking of the clash of civilizations theory and global politics.
In this richly detailed criticism of contemporary politics, Hamid Dabashi argues that after 9/11 we have not seen a new phase in a long running confrontation between Islam and the West, but that such categories have in fact collapsed and exhausted themselves. The West is no longer a unified actor and Islam is ideologically depleted in its conf...
You easily download any file type for your device.Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire | Hamid Dabashi. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
