The Politics of Writing Islam: Voicing Difference

by Mahmut Mutman

Book Overview

The Politics of Writing Islam provides a much-needed critique of existing forms of studying, writing and representing Islam in the West. Through critiquing ethnographic, literary, critical, psychoanalytic and theological discourses, the author reveals the problematic underlying cultural and theoretical presuppositions. Mutman demonstrates how their approach reflects the socially, politically and economically unequal relationship between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144116524X
• ISBN13: 9781441165244
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"