A new vision for Islamic pasts and futures /

A new vision for Islamic pasts and futures / / Shahzad Bashir.

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This groundbreaking, born-digital work invites readers to imagine Islam anew. Moving beyond conventional theological, nativist, and orientalist approaches, Shahzad Bashir decenters Islam from a geographical identification with the Middle East, an articulation through men's authority alone, and...

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Bashir, Shahzad,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge : : The MIT Press,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Islam
  • Time
  • Conceptual Framework
  • 1. Constructing Time
  • A Walk in Time
  • Events and Narratives
  • Tropes
  • Life Stories
  • Politics
  • Modern Global Times
  • 2. The Web of History
  • Jerusalem in Java
  • Inadequacy of Timelines
  • Spacetimes
  • Genealogies
  • Events Relived
  • Enduring Forms
  • 3. Transformative Moments
  • A Roaming Orientalist
  • The Modern (Historical) Condition
  • The Mongol Catalysis
  • Varieties of 'Islamic' Times
  • Orientations to the Past
  • 4. Lifetimes
  • A Woman's Voice
  • An Edifice of Time
  • Documenting the Living Dead
  • Stories from the Americas
  • Self, Family, Nation
  • 5. Pasts Envisioned
  • The Skyline of Istanbul
  • Frescoes in the Desert
  • Beautiful Violence
  • The Gift of Presence
  • The Missing Image
  • The Grave of Time
  • 6. Historical Fictions
  • An Ambiguous Adventure
  • The Arab Renaissance
  • A New Past Nation
  • The Premodern Epic
  • Fictional Truth
  • 7. Looking Back to the Future
  • The Grave of a Living King
  • Anticipating Past Futures
  • A Resurrection
  • A Lost-Found Nation
  • Reading the Stars
  • Refugee Horizons - Epilogue.

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