{"product_id":"the-last-muslim-intellectual-9781474479295","title":"The Last Muslim Intellectual","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this social and intellectual biography, Hamid Dabashi contends that Jalal Al-e Ahmad was the last Muslim intellectual to have articulated a vision of Muslim worldly cosmopolitanism. This unprecedented engagement with Al-e Ahmad's life and legacy is a prelude to what Dabashi calls a 'post-Islamist Liberation Theology'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hamid Dabashi's remarkable work on Iranian 'cosmopolitan humanism' has already expanded the parameters of discussions on non-western thought to highlight the quest for an anticolonial modernity as integral to its global reach. In this well-balanced and elegantly written volume, Dabashi treats Al-e Ahmad, a preeminent intellectual of his time, as a pioneering -anticolonial theorist who Islamist thinkers, such as Ali Shari'ati, would only later develop an elective affinity for, in the process recasting him an anti-western nativist. Dabashi situates Al-e Ahmad alongside other anticolonial thinkers to remind us that Al-e Ahmad could not have anticipated Shari'ati would have taken him all the way to the borderlines of a committed Islamist ideologue.\" Along the way, this provocative work raises important questions about the evolution of an anticolonial canon and the crystallization of sectarian divisions.\"\" -Ali Mirsepassi, Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor, New York University","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867258401111,"sku":"9781474479295","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474479295.jpg?v=1722282458","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-last-muslim-intellectual-9781474479295","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}