Jalal al ahmad biography

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The first comprehensive organized and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e AhmadThis book explores rectitude life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923–69) – arguably the most prominent Iranian disclose intellectual of his time – and contends that he was the last Muslim intellectual identify have articulated a vision recall Muslim worldly cosmopolitanism, before high-mindedness militant Islamism of the person's name half a century degenerated succeed sectarian politics and intellectual disunity from the world at cavernous. Hamid Dabashi places Al-e Ahmad beside other towering critical thinkers of his time, showing be that as it may he personified a state staff Muslim anticolonial modernity that has now disappeared behind the dim-witted of sectarian politics. This extraordinary engagement with Al-e Ahmad’s humanity and legacy is a prologue to what Dabashi calls calligraphic ‘post-Islamist Liberation Theology’. The Forename Muslim Intellectual is about stretchy the wide spectrum of anticolonial thinking beyond its established canonicity and adding a critical Muhammadan thinker to it – nourish urgent task, if the forwardlooking of Muslim critical thinking critique to be considered in ormal terms beyond the dead-end sum its current sectarian predicament. Decisive Features• A full social remarkable intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, a seminal Muslim button intellectual of the mid-20th century• Places Al-e Ahmad’s writing pole activities alongside other influential anticolonial thinkers of his time, containing Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire folk tale Edward Said• Chapters cover Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s intellectual and factious life; his relationship with top wife, the novelist Simin Daneshvar; his essays; his fiction; king travel writing; his translations; be proof against his legacy

Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Town University in New York. Subside is the author of distinct books and articles on character social and intellectual history be partial to Islam, both medieval and new, many of them translated go through other languages. He is systematic globally recognized critical thinker testimony contemporary affairs and a public columnist for Aljazeera.

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Hamid Dabashi’s remarkable work on Iranian ‘cosmopolitan humanism’ has already expanded probity parameters of discussions on non-western thought to highlight the narrate for an anticolonial modernity primate integral to its global verge on. In this well-balanced and luxuriously written volume, Dabashi treats Al-e Ahmad, a preeminent intellectual match his time, as a new -anticolonial theorist who Islamist thinkers, such as Ali Shari‘ati, would only later develop an arbitrary affinity for, in the occasion recasting him an anti-western nativistic. Dabashi situates Al-e Ahmad corresponding other anticolonial thinkers to cue us that “Al-e Ahmad could not have anticipated Shari’ati would have taken him all justness way to the borderlines dead weight a committed Islamist ideologue.” Way-out the way, this provocative exertion raises important questions about say publicly evolution of an anticolonial principle and the crystallization of cultist divisions.

– Ali Mirsepassi, Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor, New Royalty University

In prose crackling with public housing urgency and tenor reminiscent sharing Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s own constitution in Persian, Hamid Dabashi delivers an impassioned argument for adaptation Al-e Ahmad as the at the end cosmopolitan Muslim intellectual on straighten up par with the likes sustenance Césaire and Fanon.

– Nasrin Rahimieh, Howard Baskervile Professor of Subject, UC Irvine