Unveiling Traditions
Subtitle: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780822326298
Subjects: Cultural studies; Islam; Islamic studies; World - Colonial Studies; Islam - General; Islamic History; Religion; Sociology; Religious aspects; Customs & Traditions; Postcolonial Studies; Religious Studies; Social Science; Ethnic Studies - General; 20th century; Capitalism; Economic aspects
First sentence: Postcoloniality is the condition of what we might ungenerously call a comprador intelligentsia: of a relatively small, Western-style, Western-trained, group of writers and thinkers who mediate the trade in cultural commodities of world capitalism at the periphery.