Postcolonialism and Islam
Subtitle: theory, literature, culture, society and film
By: edited by Geoffrey Nash, Kathleen Kerr-Koch and Sarah E. Hackett
Series: Routledge Islamic studies series; Routledge Islamic studies
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780415710572; 9781315884813
Subjects: Ethnic identity; Literatur; Islamic renewal; Religion; Islam and state; Postkolonialismus; Regional Studies; Gesellschaft; Postmodernism; Islam and culture; General; RELIGION; Muslims; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Film; Islam
Description: "With a focus on the areas of theory, literature, culture, society and film, this collection of essays examines, questions and broadens the applicability of Postcolonialism and Islam from a multifaceted and cross-disciplinary perspective. Topics covered include the relationship between Postcolonialism and Orientalism, theoretical perspectives on Postcolonialism and Islam, the position of Islam within postcolonial literature, Muslim identity in British and European contexts, and the role of Islam in colonial and postcolonial cinema in Egypt and India. At a time at which Islam continues to be at the centre of increasingly heated and frenzied political and academic deliberations, Postcolonialism and Islam offers a framework around which the debate on Muslims in the modern world can be centred. Transgressing geographical, disciplinary and theoretical boundaries, this book is an invaluable resource for students of Islamic Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociolgy and Literature"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Multicultural politics in post-Islamist Muslim Britain / Tahir Abbas; title: Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, aesthetics and postcolonialism / Javed Majeed; title: Postcolonialism and Orientalism / Patrick Williams; title: Between postcolonialism and radical historicism: the contested Muslim political subject / Rosa Vasilaki; title: Arab spring: the end of postcolonialism? Fanon's war and Franco-Maghrebian theory / Kathleen Kerr-Koch; title: Rushdie, Said, Islam and secular postcolonialism / Hasan Majed; title: Postnational aesthetics and the work of mourning in Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi / Alex Padamsee; title: The other in modern Arabic literature: a critique of postcolonial theory / Christina Phillips; title: Academia, empathy and faith: Leila Aboulela's The Translator / C.E. Rashid; title: 'He does not deny the suspicion that he himself is a Muslim': Goethe, Said and the other Orient / Fritz Wefelmeyer; title: W.H. Quilliam, Marmaduke Pickthall and the window of British modernist Islam / Geoffrey Nash; title: Backlash as excess: scattered speculations on liberal multiculturalism / Alexej Ulbricht; title: Between hip-hop and Muhammad: European Muslim hip-hop and identity / Amir Saeed; title: Realist cinema and Islam / Anastasia Valassopoulos; title: 'Shooting Muslims': looking at Muslims in Bollywood through a postcolonial lens / Syed Haider; title: The Battle of Algiers revisited / Gerhard Koch.