The Last Muslim Intellectual : : The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad / / Hamid Dabashi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Dabashi, Hamid,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 14 B/W illustrations

Explores the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923–69) – arguably the most prominent Iranian public intellectual of his timeA social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, a seminal Muslim public intellectual of the mid-20th centuryPlaces Al-e Ahmad’s writing and activities alongside other influential anticolonial thinkers of his time, including Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire and Edward SaidChapters cover Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s intellectual and political life; his relationship with his wife, the novelist Simin Daneshvar; his essays; his fiction; his travel writing; his translations; and his legacyIn 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, before the militant Islamism of the last half a century degenerated into sectarian politics and intellectual alienation from the world at large.Dabashi places Al-e Ahmad beside other towering critical thinkers of his time, showing how he personified a state of Muslim anticolonial modernity that has now disappeared behind the smokescreen of sectarian politics. This unprecedented engagement with Al-e Ahmad’s life and legacy is a prelude to what Dabashi calls a ‘post-Islamist Liberation Theology’.The Last Muslim Intellectual expands the wide spectrum of anticolonial thinking beyond its established canonicity by adding a critical Muslim thinker to it – an urgent task, if the future of Muslim critical thinking is to be considered in liberated terms beyond the dead-end of its current sectarian predicament.

Table of 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