The politics of Muslim intellectual discourse in the West : the emergence of a Western-Islamic public sphere / Dilyana Mincheva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mincheva, Dilyana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Relations.

Islam.

Relations.

East and West.

Islamic countries--Relations--Western countries.

Islamic countries.

Western countries--Relations--Islamic countries.

Western countries.

Interfaith relations.

International relations.

Physical Description:

ix, 169 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Eastbourne ; Chicago, IL : Sussex Academic Press, 2016.

Summary:

The Politics of Muslim Intellectual Discourse in the West is a case study in the literary, psychoanalytic, and theological encounters between diasporic Muslim intellectuals and secular western modernity. It centers on the simultaneous search for the possibility of both a reformation of Islamic fundamentalism and a transformation of the exclusionary limitations of western public institutions. With roots in original research in the fields of comparative religion and cultural studies, and drawing on sources in English, French, and Arabic, the author introduces the concepts of the "Western-Islamic public sphere". This concept defines what is at stake in the formative play of public representations where traditionalist foundations and modernist adaptations meet, clash, and produce discourse around their common disequilibrium. Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The damaged notions of East and West: main concepts

1. The politics of critical Islam

2. Critical Islam inside academia

3. North-American post-colonial studies and European polemics against Islam

4. Literary voices turned political

Conclusion: Beyond the damaged notions of East and West

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845197650

1845197658

OCLC:

913711925