Edinburgh historical studies of Iran and the Persian world
Contents
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: 'The Last Muslim Intellectual' -- 1 Remembrance of Things Past -- 2 'Something of an Autobiography' -- 3 Her Husband Jalal -- 4 The Master Essayist -- 5 Gharbzadegi: The Condition of Coloniality -- 6 Literary Interludes -- 7 Travelling In and Out of a Homeland -- 8 Translating the World -- 9 From a Short Life to a Lasting Legacy: Towards a Post-Islamist Liberation Theology -- Index
Summary
In this social and intellectual biography, Hamid Dabashi contends that Jalal Al-e Ahmad was the last Muslim intellectual to have articulated a vision of Muslim worldly cosmopolitanism. This unprecedented engagement with Al-e Ahmad's life and legacy is a prelude to what Dabashi calls a 'post-Islamist Liberation Theology'
