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Sadia Abbas - At Freedom´s Limit: Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament - 9780823257850 - V9780823257850
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At Freedom´s Limit: Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament

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Description for At Freedom´s Limit: Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament Hardback. Deals with the subject of a new "Islam", which begins to disclose its shape in 1988 around the Rushdie Affair, the collapse of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the first Gulf War of 1991. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 color illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 511.

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.
At this discursive site are many metonyms for Islam: the veiled or “pious” Muslim ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823257850
SKU
V9780823257850
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About Sadia Abbas
Sadia Abbas is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark.

Reviews for At Freedom´s Limit: Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament
"This is the first book to deal with the interlinked phenomena of Islamic radicalism and Islamophobia by exiting the apologetic discourse to which left-liberal critique has largely been reduced. Re-deploying the Eurocentric terms that inform so much scholarship on the issue, Abbas shows how her own allies on the left have ended up focussing on a severely 'Protestant' kind of ... Read more

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