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Unsettling colonial modernity in Islamicate contexts / edited by Siavash Saffari, Roxana Akhbari, Kra Abdolmaleki and Evelyn Hamdon.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781443893749
  • 1443893749
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 297 23
LOC classification:
  • BP161.3 .U57 2017
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section I: Coloniality and the Discontents of the Modern Nation-State; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Section II: The Aesthetics of Decolonization; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Section III: The Colonial Gaze and the Muslim Other; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Contributors; Index
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section I: Coloniality and the Discontents of the Modern Nation-State; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Section II: The Aesthetics of Decolonization; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Section III: The Colonial Gaze and the Muslim Other; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Contributors; Index