Being a Muslim in the World

by Hamid Dabashi

What does it mean to be a Muslim - in this world, in this deeply transformative time? Hamid Dabashi ask this seminal question anew, in the context of what he proposes is a post-Western world where the "Islam and the West" binary is collapsing and where "the West," as a construct, no longer holds the same normative hegemony. Against the grain of more than two hundred years of colonialism and self-alienation, Islam remains not just a world religion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137301287
• ISBN13: 9781137301284
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"