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At freedom's limit : Islam and the postcolonial predicament
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At freedom's limit : Islam and the postcolonial predicament / Sadia Abbas.
ISBN
9780823252978 (ebook) :
Publication
New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 247 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
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Summary
The subject of this book is a new 'Islam'. This Islam began to take shape in 1988 around the Rushdie affair, the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the first Gulf War of 1991. It was consolidated in the period following September 11, 2001. It is a name, a discursive site, a signifier at once flexible and constrained - indeed, it is a geopolitical agon, in and around which some of the most pressing aporias of modernity, enlightenment, liberalism, and reformation are worked out.
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Fordham scholarship online.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 05, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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