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  • Being a Muslim in the World

    by H. Dabashi ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    What does it mean to be a Muslim - in this world, in this deeply transformative time? Hamid Dabashi suggests that the transition to a changed, post-Western world requires the crafting of a new language of critical conversation with Islam and its cosmopolitan heritage - a language that is tuned to the emerging, not the disappearing, world ... Read more

    $47.89 CAD

  • Corpus Anarchicum

    Political Protest, Suicidal Violence, and the Making of the Posthuman Body

    by H. Dabashi ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Dabashi's newest book is a meditation on suicidal violence in the immediate context of its most recent political surge and a critical examination of the radical transformation of the human body, supported by close readings of cinematic and artistic evidence. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The World of Persian Literary Humanism

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    Humanism has mostly considered the question “What does it mean to be human?” from a Western perspective. Dabashi asks it anew from a non-European perspective, in a groundbreaking study of 1,400 years of Persian literary humanism. He presents the unfolding of this vast tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization. ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The End of Two Illusions

    Islam after the West

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    Dismantling the myths that divide Islam and the West, this cutting-edge work of critical thinking proposes new ways to reread Islamic and world histories.Extending from the front-page news coverage of our daily lives back into the deepest and most revelatory histories of the last two hundred years and earlier, Hamid Dabashi's The End of Two Illusions is a daring, provocative, and groundbreaking ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Authority in Islam

    From the Rise of Mohammad to the Establishment of the Umayyads

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    From the origins of Muhammad's prophetic movement through the development of Islam's principal branches to the establishment of the Umayyad dynasty, the concept of authority has been central to Islamic civilization. By examining the nature, organization, and transformation of authority over time, Dabashi conveys both continuities and disruptions inherent in the development of a new political ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The New William Faulkner Studies

    Edited by Sarah Gleeson-White, Pardis Dabashi ...
    Series series Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
    William Faulkner remains one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, and Faulkner Studies offers up seemingly endless ways to engage anew questions and problems that continue to occupy literary studies into the twenty-first century, and beyond the compass of Faulkner himself. His corpus has proved particularly accommodating of a range of perspectives and methodologies that include ... Read more

    $73.59 CAD

  • Truth and Narrative

    The Untimely Thoughts of 'Ayn al-Qudat

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    'Ayn al-Qudat is one of the great multi-dimensional geniuses of Islamic intellectual history and has even been described as the true father of deconstructionism, yet he remains little known and even less understood in the English speaking world. Hamid Dabashi has filled this gap with a compelling and sophisticated analysis of this seminal 12th century writer and thinker. Prof. Dabashi frees 'Ayn ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Green Movement in Iran

    Edited by Hamid Dabashi ...
    The Green Movement in Iran contains Hamid Dabashi's most important writings on the Iran's June 2009 election, its tumultuous aftermath, and the characteristics and aspirations of the emerging Green Movement. These analyses range from close analysis of the nature of the events to the Green Movement's historical background and future political consequences. The writings have been modified and ... Read more

    Was $94.81 CAD Now $85.19 CAD

  • Reversing the Colonial Gaze

    Persian Travelers Abroad

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    Series series The Global Middle East
    Exploring the furthest reaches of the globe, Persian travelers from Iran and India travelled across Russian and Ottoman territories, to Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe and beyond. Remapping the world through their travelogues, Reversing the Colonial Gaze offers a comprehensive and transformative analysis of the journeys of over a dozen of these nineteenth-century Persian travelers. ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Iran Without Borders

    Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    A history of the cosmopolitan forces that made contemporary Iran“No ruling regime,” writes Hamid Dabashi, “could ever have a total claim over the idea of Iran as a nation, a people.” For decades, the narrative about Iran has been dominated by a false binary, in which the traditional ruling Islamist regime is counterposed to a modern population of educated, secular urbanites. However, Iran has for ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Can Non-Europeans Think?

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    'In Can Non-Europeans Think? Dabashi takes his subtle but vigorous polemic to another level.'Pankaj MishraWhat happens to thinkers who operate outside the European philosophical pedigree? In this powerfully honed polemic, Hamid Dabashi argues that they are invariably marginalised, patronised and misrepresented.Challenging, pugnacious and stylish, Can Non-Europeans Think? forges a new perspective ... Read more

    $24.49 CAD

  • Dreaming of Baghdad

    by Haifa Zangana, Ferial J. Ghazoul ...
    "With passion and commitment," an exiled Iraqi woman recounts her time organizing resistance to Saddam Hussein and imprisonment in Abu Ghraib (Nawal El Saadawi, author of Zeina).In 1970s Iraq, the Ba'ath Party was at the height of its influence in the Middle East and popularity throughout the West. But a group of activists recognized the disastrous potential of the regime as its charismatic leader ... Read more

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