Unsettling colonial modernity in Islamicate contexts / edited by Siavash Saffari [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saffari, Siavash, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--21st century.

Islam.

Islamic modernism.

Physical Description:

xv, 320 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

"By focusing on colonial histories and legacies, this edited volume breaks new ground in studying modernity in Islamicate contexts. From a range of disciplinary perspectives, the authors probe 'colonial modernity' as a condition whose introduction into Islamicate contexts was facilitated historically by European encroachment into South Asia, the Middle East, and Northern Africa. They also analyze the various modes through which, in Europe itself, and in North America by extension, people from Islamicate contexts have been, and continue to be, otherized in the constitution and advancement of the project of modernity. The book further brings to light a multiplicity of social, political, cultural, and aesthetic modes of resisitance aimed at subverting and unsettleing colonial modernity in both Muslim-majority and diasporic contexts."--Back cover.

Contents:

Section I Coloniality and the Discontents of the Modern Nation-State

Chapter 1 Origins of Identity Confusion: Is the Path Dependency of Late 19th-century Egypt Still Shaping Its Present Politics? / Ahmed El-Sayed El-Sayed, Ahmed 28

Chapter 2 Reimagining Mediterranean Spaces: Libya and the Italo-Turkish War, 1911-1912 / Jonathan McCollum McCollum, Jonathan 49

Chapter 3 Nation and Identity Construction in Modern Iraq: (Re)Inserting the Assyrians / Mariam Georgis Georgis, Mariam 67

Chapter 4 On Protectorates and Consultanates: The Birth and Demise of Modernization in the Gulf States / Ali Karimi Karimi, Ali, Frederick Kim Kim, Frederick 88

Section II The Aesthetics of Decolonization: Sights, Images, and Stories

Chapter 5 Casablanca: From Protectorate to Neoliberal Polis - Reading the City through Order and Progress / Rouzbeh Akhbari Akhbari, Rouzbeh, Felix Kalmenson Kalmenson, Felix 104

Chapter 6 Unsettling Orientalism: Edward W. Said's 1978 Book and its Covers / Katherine Bischoping Bischoping, Katherine, Rawan Abdelbaki Abdelbaki, Rawan, Kritee Ahmed Ahmed, Kritee, Krista Banasiak Banasiak, Krista, Duygu Gül Kaya Kaya, Duygu Gül 122

Chapter 7 Queering Middle Eastern Contemporary Art and Its Diaspora / Andrew Gayed Gayed, Andrew 140

Chapter 8 Iranian Literary Modernity, Critical Regionalism, and Print Culture of the Thousand and One Nights / Rasoul Aliakbari Aliakbari, Rasoul 156

Chapter 9 A "Failed Modernity" or a "Crisis" of Modernity?: A Reading of Amin Maalouf's The Rock of Tanios / Khalid Alhathlool Alhathlool, Khalid 172

Section III The Colonial Gaze and the Muslim Other

Chapter 10 The Bosnian Muslim Subaltern in Modern Europe: From Myth to Genocide / Jasna Balorda Balorda, Jasna 192

Chapter 11 Alternative Spaces of Young Muslim Leaders: Experimenting with Laïcité within the French Mosque / Ayse Özcan Özcan, Ayse 211

Chapter 12 Of Terrorism and Barbarism: Orientalism and Settler Colonialism in Canadian Discourses of Citizenship / Azeezah Kanji Kanji, Azeezah 232

Chapter 13 Canadian Multicultural Citizenship and the 'Crisis' Over the Veil: Cultivating Internal Exclusions / Nisha Nath Nath, Nisha 259

Chapter 14 The Need for De-Centering Anti-Islamophobia Critiques: Proposing a Demarcation / Roxana Akhbari Akhbari, Roxana 288.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781443873178

1443873179

OCLC:

987341303

Publisher Number:

99972691310