Islam and anarchism : relationships and resonances / Mohamed Abdou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abdou, Mohamed, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anarchism.

Islam and politics.

Islam and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, [2022]

Summary:

A nuanced and highly original anarchistic interpretation of Islam, and Islamic interpretation of anarchism.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Panegyric Desert of the Present

The Destructive Legacy of (Neo)Liberalism and Colonial Modernity in the Production of Neo-Orientalist and Neo-Fundamentalist Muslim Subjectivities

A Match to a Powder Keg

Islam and Anarchism Are Dead: Muslim Anarchists in Turtle Island's Newest Social Movements

Positionality: Who Is Speaking?

A Sum Exceeding the Whole, Everything Divided: The Argument Condensed

2. Authoritarianism, Capitalism, and Capitalist Nation-States: Anarcha-Islam's Playground and Ethical-Political Consciousness

On Decolonization and Reindigenization, and the Crises of Fleeting Tahrir Moments

Thus Spoke God: The Method of Anarchic Ijtihad

Deleuze and Guattari's Oedipal Triad: The Nation-State (Daddy)

Capitalism (Mommy)

and Me/Us

3. Anarcha-Islam: An Anti- and Non-Authoritarian Islam

Anarcha-Islam's Osteological Left-Side

Arise: An Anti- and Non-Authoritarian Islam

Modern Uses of Wataniyyah, Qawmiyyah, and Dawla, and Decolonized Vestiges of the Umma and Imamah in Arab and Muslim Lexicons

Muslim and Non-Muslim Glossaries of Indigeneity Towards a Resurgent Umma: Anti-Blackness and Anti-Indigenous Politics

4. Anarcha-Islam: An Anti- and Non-Capitalist Islam

Anarcha-Islam's Osteological Right-Side

Awaken: An Anti- and Non-Capitalist Islam: Micro-and Macro-Economics

As Patients We Come to Each Other's Aid

5. Uprisings: On (Im)Possibilities and Militant Resistance

The Delusional Myth of Nonviolence

Violence, Jihad, and Qital in Islam: A Single Blunder Can Fuel a Great Fire

From the Deception of "Nonviolence" to Red, Black, and Brown Power

Liberatory Victory

6. Conclusion: There Are Only Middles, No Beginnings and No Ends. Between BLM, NoDaPL-INM, and Tahrir.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781786807151

1786807157

9781786807144

1786807149