Islam and Anarchism
Subtitle: Relationships and Resonances
By: Mohamed Abdou
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2022-06-20
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780745341927
Copyright date: 2022
Description: Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islam is urgently needed. Yet it is a perhaps unexpected political philosophical tradition that has the most to offer in this pursuit: anarchism.

*Islam and Anarchism* is a highly original and interdisciplinary work, which simultaneously disrupts two commonly held beliefs - that Islam is necessarily authoritarian and capitalist; and that anarchism is necessarily anti-religious and anti-spiritual. Deeply rooted in key Islamic concepts and textual sources, and drawing on radical Indigenous, Islamic anarchistic and social movement discourses, Abdou proposes 'Anarcha-Islam'.

Constructing a decolonial, non-authoritarian and non-capitalist Islamic anarchism, Islam and Anarchism philosophically and theologically challenges the classist, sexist, racist, ageist, queerphobic and ableist inequalities in both post- and neo-colonial societies like Egypt, and settler-colonial societies such as Canada and the USA.

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Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: viii; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xi; title: A Note on Transliteration and Translation
pagenum: xiv; label: 1.
title: Introduction: Panegyric Desert of the Present
pagenum: 1; title: The Destructive Legacy of (Neo)Liberalism and Colonial Modernity in the Production of Neo-Orientalist and Neo-Fundamentalist Muslim Subjectivities
pagenum: 2; title: A Match to a Powder Keg
pagenum: 14; title: Islām and Anarchism Are Dead: Muslim Anarchists in Turtle Island’s Newest Social Movements
pagenum: 18; title: Positionality: Who Is Speaking?
pagenum: 32; title: A Sum Exceeding the Whole, Everything Divided: The Argument Condensed
pagenum: 33; label: 2.
title: Authoritarianism, Capitalism, and Capitalist Nation-States: Anarcha-Islām’s Playground and Ethical-Political Consciousness
pagenum: 40; title: On Decolonization and Reindigenization, and the Crises of Fleeting Tahrir Moments
pagenum: 41; title: Thus Spoke God: The Method of Anarchic Ijtihād
pagenum: 45; title: Deleuze and Guattari’s Oedipal Triad: The Nation-State (Daddy) – Capitalism (Mommy) – and Me/Us
pagenum: 56; label: 3.
title: Anarcha-Islām: An Anti- and Non-Authoritarian Islām
pagenum: 72; title: Anarcha-Islām’s Osteological Left-Side
pagenum: 72; title: Arise: An Anti- and Non-Authoritarian Islām
pagenum: 83; title: Modern Uses of Waṭaniyyah, Qawmiyyah, and Dawla, and Decolonized Vestiges of the Umma and Īmāmah in Arab and Muslim Lexicons
pagenum: 112; title: Muslim and Non-Muslim Glossaries of Indigeneity Towards a Resurgent Umma: Anti-Blackness and Anti-Indigenous Politics
pagenum: 128; label: 4.
title: Anarcha-Islām: An Anti- and Non-Capitalist Islām
pagenum: 147; title: Anarcha-Islām’s Osteological Right-Side
pagenum: 147; title: Awaken: An Anti- and Non-Capitalist Islām: Micro- and Macro-Economics
pagenum: 149; title: As Patients We Come to Each Other’s Aid
pagenum: 175; label: 5.
title: Uprisings: On (Im)Possibilities and Militant Resistance
pagenum: 178; title: The Delusional Myth of Nonviolence
pagenum: 179; title: Violence, Jihād, and Qitāl in Islām: A Single Blunder Can Fuel a Great Fire
pagenum: 191; title: From the Deception of “Nonviolence” to Red, Black, and Brown Power
pagenum: 211; title: Liberatory Victory
pagenum: 220; label: 6.
title: Conclusion: There Are Only Middles, No Beginnings and No Ends. Between BLM, NoDaPL-INM, and Tahrir
pagenum: 222; title: Notes
pagenum: 241; title: Index
pagenum: 324