A Call for Heresy: Why Dissent Is Vital to Islam and America
Anouar Majid
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Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
A Call for Heresy discovers unexpected common ground in one of the most inflammatory issues of the twenty-first century: the deepening conflict between the Islamic world and the United States. Moving beyond simplistic answers, Anouar Majid argues that the Islamic world and the United States are both in precipitous states of decline because, in each, religious, political, and economic orthodoxies have silenced the voices of their most creative thinkers—the visionary nonconformists, radicals, and revolutionaries who are often dismissed, or even punished, as heretics.
The United States and contemporary Islam share far more than partisans on either side admit, ... Read more
A Call for Heresy discovers unexpected common ground in one of the most inflammatory issues of the twenty-first century: the deepening conflict between the Islamic world and the United States. Moving beyond simplistic answers, Anouar Majid argues that the Islamic world and the United States are both in precipitous states of decline because, in each, religious, political, and economic orthodoxies have silenced the voices of their most creative thinkers—the visionary nonconformists, radicals, and revolutionaries who are often dismissed, or even punished, as heretics.
The United States and contemporary Islam share far more than partisans on either side admit, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816651283
SKU
V9780816651283
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About Anouar Majid
Anouar Majid is professor and founding chair of the Department of English at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. He is the author of Freedom and Orthodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age and Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World, which was recommended by the American Association of University Professors as a book for understanding ... Read more
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