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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780823257898
035 _a(DE-B1597)555191
035 _a(OCoLC)1175637474
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082 0 4 _a306.6/97
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aAbbas, Sadia
_eautore
245 1 0 _aAt Freedom's Limit :
_bIslam and the Postcolonial Predicament /
_cSadia Abbas.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource (272 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tThe Argument --
_t1. The Maintenance of Innocence --
_t2. The Echo Chamber of Freedom: The Muslim Woman and the Pretext of Agency --
_t3. Religion and the Novel: A Case Study --
_t4. How Injury Travels --
_t5. Cold War Baroque: Saints and Icons --
_t6. Theologies of Love --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aThe subject of this book is a new “Islam.” This Islam began to take shape in 1988 around the Rushdie affair, the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the first Gulf War of 1991. It was consolidated in the period following September 11, 2001. It is a name, a discursive site, a signifier at once flexible and constrained—indeed, itis a geopolitical agon, in and around which some of the most pressing aporias of modernity, enlightenment, liberalism, and reformation are worked out.At this discursive site are many metonyms for Islam: the veiled or “pious” Muslim woman, the militant, the minority Muslim injured by Western free speech. Each of these figures functions as a cipher enabling repeated encounters with the question “How do we free ourselves from freedom?” Again and again, freedom is imagined as Western, modern, imperial—a dark imposition of Enlightenment. The pious and injured Muslim who desires his or her own enslavement is imagined as freedom’s other.At Freedom’s Limit is an intervention into current debates regarding religion, secularism, and Islam and provides a deep critique of the anthropology and sociology of Islam that have consolidated this formation. It shows that, even as this Islam gains increasing traction in cultural production from television shows to movies to novels, the most intricate contestations of Islam so construed are to be found in the work of Muslim writers and painters.This book includes extended readings of jihadist proclamations; postcolonial law; responses to law from minorities in Muslim-majority societies; Islamophobic films; the novels of Leila Aboulela, Mohammed Hanif, and Nadeem Aslam; and the paintings of Komail Aijazuddin.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aIslam
_y20th century.
650 0 _aIslam
_y21st century.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 4 _aMiddle Eastern Studies.
650 4 _aPostcolonial Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern.
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653 _aCold War.
653 _aIslam.
653 _aPakistani Literature.
653 _aPostcolonial Islam.
653 _aWar on Terror.
653 _abaroque.
653 _ablasphemy laws.
653 _aenlightenment freedom.
653 _apious Muslims.
653 _apolitical theology.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823257898?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823257898
856 4 2 _3Cover
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999 _c201971
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