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A Gendered Palestinization of Identity

An Arab Philosophy and Colonial-Modernity Perspective

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In this powerful and timely work, Nadia Issam Harhash dismantles the limits of traditional philosophical canons in confronting injustice, especially as experienced by women and marginalized communities. Bridging feminist theories, Arab Eastern philosophy, and postcolonial critique, she offers a framework rooted in Standpoint Theory, Situated Knowledges , and Intersectionality to rethink identity, ... Read more

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In this powerful and timely work, Nadia Issam Harhash dismantles the limits of traditional philosophical canons in confronting injustice, especially as experienced by women and marginalized communities. Bridging feminist theories, Arab Eastern philosophy, and postcolonial critique, she offers a framework rooted in Standpoint Theory, Situated Knowledges , and Intersectionality to rethink identity,
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Identity and Violence

The Illusion of Destiny

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“One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine GordimerIn this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision ... Read more

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Politics of Piety

The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

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Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba ... Read more

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The Impossible State

Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament

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Wael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible and inherently self-contradictory. Comparing the legal, political, moral, and constitutional histories of premodern Islam and Euro-America, he finds the adoption and practice of the modern state to be highly problematic for modern Muslims. He also ... Read more

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Wael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible and inherently self-contradictory. Comparing the legal, political, moral, and constitutional histories of premodern Islam and Euro-America, he finds the adoption and practice of the modern state to be highly problematic for modern Muslims. He also
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Vulnerability in Resistance

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Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural practices in different global locations, including Turkey, Palestine, France, and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors to Vulnerability in ... Read more

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Restating Orientalism

A Critique of Modern Knowledge

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Since Edward Said’s foundational work, Orientalism has been singled out for critique as the quintessential example of Western intellectuals’ collaboration with oppression. Controversies over the imbrications of knowledge and power and the complicity of Orientalism in the larger project of colonialism have been waged among generations of scholars. But has Orientalism come to stand in for all of the ... Read more

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Formations of the Secular

Christianity, Islam, Modernity

by Talal Asad ...

Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
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Ambiguities of Domination

Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria

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Treating rhetoric and symbols as central rather than peripheral to politics, Lisa Wedeen's groundbreaking book offers a compelling counterargument to those who insist that politics is primarily about material interests and the groups advocating for them. During the thirty-year rule of President Hafiz al-Asad's regime, his image was everywhere. In newspapers, on television, and during orchestrated ... Read more

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Egypt in the Future Tense

Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before and after 2011

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Contemporary Arab Thought

Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

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